What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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 is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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 Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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