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.
AKBAR GANJIThe 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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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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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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