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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Against Country Dismantlement
Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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