The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJIThe Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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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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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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