Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
AKBAR GANJIIn a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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 must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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