The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJIWe see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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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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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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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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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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