Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
AKBAR GANJIIt began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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 regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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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 Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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