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.
AKBAR GANJII have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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