But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
AKBAR GANJIBut 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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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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 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 did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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