Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
AKBAR GANJIWhen women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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