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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

Akbar Ganji

When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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Country Idea Myself Population Same Speak Support Time Wide
The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Happen Regime Revolution Situation White
Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Circumstance Country Oil Result Today
The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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Keep Lackey Lying Opponent Regime Saying
We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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All Lackey Lie Say United State Use
[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Accomplish Expect General Revolution Revolutionary
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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Believe Country Ethnic National People Problem Supporter Wife
There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Country Media More Opposition Outside Voice
There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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Corruption Distribution Evidence Example Face Kind Marry Money People Teacher
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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Belief Country Equal Nation Nuclear People Progam Right Same
And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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Country Demand Expectation Incapable Increase Regime Satisfy Society Strata Witness
The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Concern Country Ecological Everything Information Movement Public
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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Discourse Left Look Man Revolution Right
The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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Believe Country Dimension Issue Legal Other Realm Two
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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Atheist Conscious Expression Freedom Idea Manner Society Tolerance
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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Exist Intense Involve Like Living Position Tension Wife

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