I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
AKBAR GANJIWe believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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