The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIIn Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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 lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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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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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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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