The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJISupporters 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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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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.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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