We 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.
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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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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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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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