The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJIThe modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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 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 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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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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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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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