I am only speaking of my own behalf.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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