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.
AKBAR GANJIIt is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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