The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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 see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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