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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.

Akbar Ganji

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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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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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 modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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