The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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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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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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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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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’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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