We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
AKBAR GANJIIn Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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 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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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.
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