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.
AKBAR GANJIRecently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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