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.
AKBAR GANJIThe regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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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