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.
AKBAR GANJIThe number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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