I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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There 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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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.
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