Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJIIf 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 ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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 have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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