We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
AKBAR GANJIReligion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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 more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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