Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
AKBAR GANJI
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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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 went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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