Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.
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My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
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When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.
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Terrorism is based on two major pillars One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one. This way of thinking - this self-certainty - is based on not being educated.
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Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
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The US will not solve the nuclear problem by threatening military strikes or by dragging Iran before the UN Security Council. Although a vast majority of Iranians despise the country's hard-liners and wish for their downfall, they also support its nuclear program because it has become a source of pride for an old nation with a glorious history.
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