I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
AKBAR GANJIThe Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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In 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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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 should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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