Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
AKBAR GANJIWe recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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