Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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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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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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