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Akbar Ganji

Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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Accept Country Decide Excess Expect Govern Idea Ideas Ruler
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
The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Began Change Condition Create Revolution Situation
In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Country Covert Everything Firsthand Information
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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Billion Country History Revenue Revolution Unheard
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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Certainty Country Front People Same Side Worker
There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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Corruption Distribution Evidence Example Face Kind Marry Money People Teacher
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
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
Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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Anything Best Negotiation Solve War Way Weapon
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
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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Commander Guard Join Revolutionary Simple
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Helpful International Pressure Regime Release Secure Universal
We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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Benefit Class Create Kind Obvious Regime Use Well

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