Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
AKBAR GANJI
I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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 am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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