The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJIThe 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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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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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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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 modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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