There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJIThe 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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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 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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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