We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
AKBAR GANJIThe Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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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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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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