The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
AKBAR GANJIThe situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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 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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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