Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
AKBAR GANJIThere 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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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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 number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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