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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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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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Development Distraught Lower Political Problem Society Solution Solve Strata
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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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Country Danger More Much One People Sure Thing West
Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Away Disarmament Nuclear Outlook Talking
The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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