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.
AKBAR GANJIOf 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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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 are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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