I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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 women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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