Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
AKBAR GANJIWe used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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