The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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 should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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 ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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.
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