I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIWe should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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