Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
AKBAR GANJIIt 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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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