The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
AKBAR GANJII am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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