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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.

Akbar Ganji

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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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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Behalf Own Speak
Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Why 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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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 Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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 number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.

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