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.
AKBAR GANJII 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?
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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