The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
AKBAR GANJIYou cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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