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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.

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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.

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

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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

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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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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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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? 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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We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.

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Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

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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. 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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The Shah's regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened, the situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created...we simply wanted to change the regime.

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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, 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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.

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