The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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 believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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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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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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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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