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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.

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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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