Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
AKBAR GANJIWhy did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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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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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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