Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
AKBAR GANJIWhatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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