We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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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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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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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