I am only speaking of my own behalf.
AKBAR GANJIThree of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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