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We 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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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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 lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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