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.
AKBAR GANJIThe number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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