The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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In 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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