I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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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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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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