It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJINegotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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 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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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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