But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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 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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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 could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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