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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

Akbar Ganji

When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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Consider Example Giving Secularism Talking Theory
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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Actual Country Investigate Last Outside Prison Six Space Spent Work Year
We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Away Disarmament Nuclear Outlook Talking
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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Believe Country Ethnic National People Problem Supporter Wife
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Helpful International Pressure Regime Release Secure Universal
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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Billion Country History Revenue Revolution Unheard
[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Accomplish Expect General Revolution Revolutionary
They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Gate Lie Themselves
The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Began Change Condition Create Revolution Situation
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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Exist Intense Involve Like Living Position Tension Wife
We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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All Lackey Lie Say United State Use
They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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 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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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