When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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