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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.

Akbar Ganji

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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.
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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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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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 am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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.
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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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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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 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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