I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIThe regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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 situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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