When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
AKBAR GANJIThree of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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 recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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