Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJIThere is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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