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.
AKBAR GANJIThere’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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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 modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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