The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
AKBAR GANJIThe modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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When 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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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