I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
AKBAR GANJIWe see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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