You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
AKBAR GANJIThree of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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 modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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