Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
AKBAR GANJIThe situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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