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.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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 number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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 situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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