Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
AKBAR GANJIWe’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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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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