It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJIAnd 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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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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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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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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