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…
AKBAR GANJIWhen women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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