It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJIThe 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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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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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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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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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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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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