The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJII did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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 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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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