I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIReligion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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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 must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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