If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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