They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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 number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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