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.
AKBAR GANJIThere is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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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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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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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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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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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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