Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
AKBAR GANJIThe Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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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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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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