Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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…
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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 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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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