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.
AKBAR GANJIThey lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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