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.
AKBAR GANJIThe Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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 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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in 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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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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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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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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