I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIOf course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in 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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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