It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
AKBAR GANJIWe see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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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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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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