Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
AKBAR GANJIThe lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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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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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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