The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJIWe have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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 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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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 ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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