I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIKhomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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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 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 regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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