Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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 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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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