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.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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