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?
AKBAR GANJIWe see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to 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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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