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?
AKBAR GANJIToday, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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 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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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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