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 GANJILet 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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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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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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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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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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