Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJII, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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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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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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