You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
AKBAR GANJIWe 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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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 did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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