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.
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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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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 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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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