Action Quote by Ruhollah Khomeini

I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is…

— Barack Obama

In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics.…

— Pauline Hanson

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of…

— Elliott Abrams

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free…

— Shirin Ebadi

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make…

— Bernard Lewis

Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper…

— Stephen Kinzer

The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

— Shirin Ebadi

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office,…

— Condoleezza Rice

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

— Geert Wilders