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.
AKBAR GANJIThere’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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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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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