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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Country Mass Province
There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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Helpful International Pressure Regime Release Secure Universal
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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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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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Against Country Dismantlement
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
The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Concern Country Ecological Everything Information Movement Public
Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Certainly Country Increase Media Number Opposition Voice
I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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.
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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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