Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
AKBAR GANJIWhat I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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