I am only speaking of my own behalf.
AKBAR GANJIIn 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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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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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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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