We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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 most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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