Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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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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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 went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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