Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
AKBAR GANJIThe solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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 there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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