We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIWhen there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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 lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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