We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
AKBAR GANJIIn 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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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