We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
AKBAR GANJIThe ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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