It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
AKBAR GANJIToday, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and 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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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