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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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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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Between Democracy Human Important Oppose Right Society Support
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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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 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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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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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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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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