Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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 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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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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 is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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