In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
AKBAR GANJILet 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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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 am only speaking of my own behalf.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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