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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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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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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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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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