He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
AKBAR GANJIThe ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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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.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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