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).
AKBAR GANJIThey lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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