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Akbar Ganji

The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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Create Defend Divert Guard Help Initial Path Revolution Soon
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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Accept Country Decide Excess Expect Govern Idea Ideas Ruler
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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Belief Country Equal Nation Nuclear People Progam Right Same
There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Country Media More Opposition Outside Voice
We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Demonstration Environmental Kind Movement Organize
The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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Believe Country Dimension Issue Legal Other Realm Two
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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Chornobyl Clear Country Material Something Worried
In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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Domain Kind Lying Matter Nuclear Part Public Reactor Tie West
Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Black Bought Country Market People
Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Country Mass Province
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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Act Affair Cloth Force Individual Islamic Modern Nature Political Private Religion State Wear Women
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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Actual Country Investigate Last Outside Prison Six Space Spent Work Year
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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Atheist Conscious Expression Freedom Idea Manner Society Tolerance
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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Demand Dream Live Melt Paradise Result Witness
It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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Exist Intense Involve Like Living Position Tension Wife
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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Class Face Facet Inflict Injustice Kind Lower Many Oppression Strata Suffer Upon

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