When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
AKBAR GANJIIn 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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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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