If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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Today, 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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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