When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
AKBAR GANJIIt was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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 have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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