When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
AKBAR GANJIThree of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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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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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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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