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.
AKBAR GANJIWe used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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