[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
AKBAR GANJIWhen women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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