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 GANJIThere is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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 solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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