Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
AKBAR GANJIWell-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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Religion 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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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 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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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