The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJIThe Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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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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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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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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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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