I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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