Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
AKBAR GANJIKhomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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