You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
AKBAR GANJIWe must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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