The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIWell-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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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