Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
AKBAR GANJIWe used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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 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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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 regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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