Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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