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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.

Akbar Ganji

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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Dream Guard Hospital Hunger Strike Inflict Injustice Manner Paradise
We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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Certainty Country Front People Same Side Worker
It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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Exist Intense Involve Like Living Position Tension Wife
The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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Class Face Facet Inflict Injustice Kind Lower Many Oppression Strata Suffer Upon
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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Act Affair Cloth Force Individual Islamic Modern Nature Political Private Religion State Wear Women
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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Corruption Distribution Evidence Example Face Kind Marry Money People Teacher
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Crisis Damage Democracy First Harm Thing
When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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Consider Example Giving Secularism Talking Theory
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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Domain Kind Lying Matter Nuclear Part Public Reactor Tie West
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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Case Country Explosion Happen heavy Nuclear People Price Serious Western Worried
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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Advancement Contribute Democracy Exist Infrastructure Juman Modern Right World
The 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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Believe Country Dimension Issue Legal Other Realm Two
I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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Actual Country Investigate Last Outside Prison Six Space Spent Work Year
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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Act Country Defiance Each Possible Such
The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Discourse Encourage Entirely Kind Man People Such
Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Black Bought Country Market People
I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Commander Guard Join Revolutionary Simple
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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Between Democracy Human Important Oppose Right Society Support
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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Difference Fool Kind Other People Popular Side Slogan
The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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Create Defend Divert Guard Help Initial Path Revolution Soon
We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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Country Development Intellectual Same System Year
The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Certainly Country Increase Media Number Opposition Voice
The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Disarmament Nuclear Region United States
We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Demonstration Environmental Kind Movement Organize
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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Expectation Explosion Occur Revolution Rising Theory Variety
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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Begin Democracy Million Saying
Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Clever Expectation Obvious Perspective Problem Side

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