Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
AKBAR GANJIWhy 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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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?”
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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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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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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