If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
AKBAR GANJIWhatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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 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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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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