I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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The 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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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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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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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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