The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
AKBAR GANJIThe Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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When 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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