“Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.”
Interview for The Guardian in Paris (6 November 1978)
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“In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.”
Interview for Austrian television, Paris, (6 November 1978), as quoted in "Democracy? I meant theocracy — The most truthful individual in recent history" by Dr. Jalal Matini,and Farhad Mafie, in The Iranian (5 August 2003) http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2003/August/Khomeini/
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2005, Address to the United Nations General Assembly (17 September 2005)

Hasina said on a function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. The Ministry of Children and Women Affairs organised the function on the occasion of Begum Rokeya Day, (9 December 2015). http://www.thedailystar.net/country/women-must-create-their-own-fate-pm-184663

“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

“It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.”
January 15, 2001 remarks at a meeting with organizers of the International Conference for Support of the Intifada, as quoted in "The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel" http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IransIntent2012b.pdf#page=6, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (2012)
2001

"Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).
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“They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.”

Bocchit Edmond (2019) cited in: " 11 of Taiwan's allies speak up at UN debate: MOFA http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201909290006.aspx" in Focus Taiwan, 29 September 2019.
Statement made during the General Debate of the 74th general assembly of the United Nations, 28 September 2019.

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