But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
AKBAR GANJIThe ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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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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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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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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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 should put away the militaristic outlook.
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