[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in 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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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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