Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
AKBAR GANJIWe 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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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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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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