When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
AKBAR GANJIIn 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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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