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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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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 situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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