It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
AKBAR GANJIThe Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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