Discussion about the future of the power structure, the role of security and military institutions, the future of the opposition, and even the relationship between the Islamic Republic and Iranian society has entered a new phase. Many questions are being raised, including whether the Islamic Republic will enter its third generation, and whether Iran is moving away from an ideological system toward a security-military structure.
Individual leadership is not desirable because such an event occurred in the Islamic Revolution.
The strength of revolutions is proportional to the strength of their leaders.
The Green Movement is the first movement in which people took to the streets for their civil rights without being called by the clergy.
Mohsen Sazegara: The slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” was a gift from our Kurdish compatriots, and this slogan is not accidental.
This revolution remained unfinished, but it achieved one of its demands, which is the issue of compulsory dress code and women’s rights.
Mohsen Sazegara: Any process in which various segments of society, not just a single class, collectively enter the political arena and demand a change of government is a revolutionary process.
He created a suitable opportunity for religious opponents who were also ideologically equipped.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi dissolved all the parties.
Mohsen Sazegara: There were two main disputes with the Shah; they said he was an American puppet and that he did not implement Islamic jurisprudential rulings.
I came to the conclusion that the problems of the Islamic Republic lie in clerical Islam (jurisprudential Islam).
During my time in Evin Prison, I became aware of the rumors about Lajevardi being a “butcher.”
Mr. Khamenei used to say that the magazine *Kiyan* was a “dinosaur egg” and that a monster would emerge from it.
Mohsen Sazegara: I was working as an advisor at the Iran Data Processing Company; Mr. Khamenei issued an order from above that “so-and-so should no longer be there!”
The confrontation with the United States and Israel was the axis of the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy.
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