Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJIIf you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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 used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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