Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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