The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
AKBAR GANJIIt 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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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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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