The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIHe 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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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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