I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIWhy 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 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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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 solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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 difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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