I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIIf you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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