The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJIThere is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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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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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