The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIIn Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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 Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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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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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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