The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJIWe must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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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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