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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.

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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Gate Lie Themselves
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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 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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Between Democracy Human Important Oppose Right Society Support
Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Clever Expectation Obvious Perspective Problem Side
The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Disarmament Nuclear Region United States
When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Against Islamic Proud Revolution Rights View
We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Create Dedicate Democratic Human Right Struggle
There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Country Media More Opposition Outside Voice
When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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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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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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