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Akbar Ganji

Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJI

Freedom Idea Invariably Issue Justice Limit Place Revolution Solve
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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Accept Country Decide Excess Expect Govern Idea Ideas Ruler
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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Change Country Everyone Must Oppose Regime
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 GANJI

Certainty Country Front People Same Side Worker
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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Act Country Defiance Each Possible Such
The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
AKBAR GANJI

Between Democracy Human Important Oppose Right Society Support
Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Country Mass Province
Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Black Bought Country Market People
Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Change Constant Even Revise Theory
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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Chornobyl Clear Country Material Something Worried
In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Act Affair Cloth Force Individual Islamic Modern Nature Political Private Religion State Wear Women
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Against Islamic Proud Revolution Rights View
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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Actual Country Investigate Last Outside Prison Six Space Spent Work Year
We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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Country Development Intellectual Same System Year
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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Basis Daily Dispense Expect Justice Process Revolution System Unfolding
We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Create Dedicate Democratic Human Right Struggle

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