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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

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Akbar Ganji
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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 must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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What I'm worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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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 should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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. 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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by, we recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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The Shah's regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened, the situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created...we simply wanted to change the regime.
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We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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