“In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.”

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Speech (9 November 1978), as quoted in The Most Truthful Individual in Recent History" in Iranshenasi, Vol. XIV, No. 4 (Winter 2003), as translated by Farhad Mafie
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