There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJIWhen I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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 used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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