I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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