We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
AKBAR GANJIThey are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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