Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
AKBAR GANJIThey lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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 a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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 U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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What 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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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