Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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 ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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?
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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