I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
AKBAR GANJIIran 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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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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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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