The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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