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.
AKBAR GANJIKhomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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.
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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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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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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