We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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