They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
AKBAR GANJIThe Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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 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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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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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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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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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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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