Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJIYou cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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 modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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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 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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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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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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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