We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
AKBAR GANJII did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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 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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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 am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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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