The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJIWhatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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And 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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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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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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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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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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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.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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