I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
AKBAR GANJIWe used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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