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.
AKBAR GANJI[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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