Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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 see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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