It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
AKBAR GANJI
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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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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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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