If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
AKBAR GANJIThe issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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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