When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
AKBAR GANJIThere 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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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