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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

Akbar Ganji

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Accomplish Expect General Revolution Revolutionary
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Against Islamic Proud Revolution Rights View
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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Country Everyone Kind Oppression Subject Two Unique Universal
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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Change Country Everyone Must Oppose Regime
The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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Create Defend Divert Guard Help Initial Path Revolution Soon
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?
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Actual Country Investigate Last Outside Prison Six Space Spent Work Year
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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Believe Country Ethnic National People Problem Supporter Wife
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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Country Demand Expectation Incapable Increase Regime Satisfy Society Strata Witness
He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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Dissatisfaction Economic Existence Expectation Lead Made never Personal Perspective Promise Rising Slogan
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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Dream Guard Hospital Hunger Strike Inflict Injustice Manner Paradise
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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First Illegal Place Prison Regime Six Year
I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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Class Face Facet Inflict Injustice Kind Lower Many Oppression Strata Suffer Upon
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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Belief Country Equal Nation Nuclear People Progam Right Same
The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Demonstration Environmental Kind Movement Organize
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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Basis Daily Dispense Expect Justice Process Revolution System Unfolding
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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Discourse Left Look Man Revolution Right
Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Institution Religion Separate State
When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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Act Back Inch Political Push Two Women
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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Act Affair Cloth Force Individual Islamic Modern Nature Political Private Religion State Wear Women
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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Difference Fool Kind Other People Popular Side Slogan
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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Demand Dream Live Melt Paradise Result Witness
Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Black Bought Country Market People
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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Country Danger More Much One People Sure Thing West
What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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Case Country Explosion Happen heavy Nuclear People Price Serious Western Worried
Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Freedom Idea Invariably Issue Justice Limit Place Revolution Solve

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