We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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?”
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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