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.
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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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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 most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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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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