Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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