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.
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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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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 recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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