We should put away the militaristic outlook.
AKBAR GANJIThe entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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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 have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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