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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.

Akbar Ganji

We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Achieve Expect Hope Justice Recognize
You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Attack Bring Country Democracy
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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Anything Budget Everyone Oppose Say Thinking
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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Act Country Defiance Each Possible Such
The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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Keep Lackey Lying Opponent Regime Saying
[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Accomplish Expect General Revolution Revolutionary
They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Gate Lie Themselves
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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Class Face Facet Inflict Injustice Kind Lower Many Oppression Strata Suffer Upon
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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Accept Country Decide Excess Expect Govern Idea Ideas Ruler
Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Black Bought Country Market People
We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Away Disarmament Nuclear Outlook Talking
Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Freedom Idea Invariably Issue Justice Limit Place Revolution Solve
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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Discourse Left Look Man Revolution Right
It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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Exist Intense Involve Like Living Position Tension Wife
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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Basis Daily Dispense Expect Justice Process Revolution System Unfolding
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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Atheist Conscious Expression Freedom Idea Manner Society Tolerance

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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