We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
AKBAR GANJIThe Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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