The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
AKBAR GANJIThree of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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 lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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