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Akbar Ganji

Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
AKBAR GANJI

Accept Country Decide Excess Expect Govern Idea Ideas Ruler
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.
AKBAR GANJI

First Illegal Place Prison Regime Six Year
The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
AKBAR GANJI

Development Distraught Lower Political Problem Society Solution Solve Strata
We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
AKBAR GANJI

Certainty Country Front People Same Side Worker
The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJI

Happen Regime Revolution Situation White
The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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Keep Lackey Lying Opponent Regime Saying
We should put away the militaristic outlook.
AKBAR GANJI

Away Disarmament Nuclear Outlook Talking
Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJI

Freedom Idea Invariably Issue Justice Limit Place Revolution Solve
The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJI

Disarmament Nuclear Region United States
I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
AKBAR GANJI

Against Country Dismantlement
In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Act Affair Cloth Force Individual Islamic Modern Nature Political Private Religion State Wear Women
Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
AKBAR GANJI

Benefit Class Create Kind Obvious Regime Use Well
We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJI

All Lackey Lie Say United State Use
They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
AKBAR GANJI

Gate Lie Themselves
We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
AKBAR GANJI

Achieve Expect Hope Justice Recognize
You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Attack Bring Country Democracy

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