Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
AKBAR GANJIWhen women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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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