The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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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 ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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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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