"Although the ruling establishment reacts less harshly against its dissidents, it has expanded the sphere of its confrontation with the people. I mean, comparing with the past (during the Constitutional Monarchy), the situation with freedom is much worse today... [The Islamic Republic's] prisons are currently crowded with the critics of the heads of the three branches of power, the judiciary, the Majlis (parliament), and the executive administration... We were truly unaware of the unjustifiable actions by the judiciary at the time (of our eight years in power). We really did not know but later we were informed [of many facts]... As you are not aware of many facts for the moment, we were also unaware of many cases and kept in the dark at the time."
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Ahmadinejad Says There Was More Freedom During Monarchy, Radio Farda,(U.S. government funded) 29 Feb 2019
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born October 28, 1956) is an Iranian politician who was the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 6 August 2005 (after winning the 2005 presidential election) until August 2013. An Iranian principlist and nationalist, he served as Mayor of Tehran earlier in his career.
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