The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
AKBAR GANJIThe 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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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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