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In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
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Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 468. (15 January 1979)

 

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