They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJIYou cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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 lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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