We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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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 believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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