Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
AKBAR GANJIIf you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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