I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIWhat 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 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 U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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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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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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