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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.

Akbar Ganji

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.
AKBAR GANJI

Chornobyl Clear Country Material Something Worried
Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Change Constant Even Revise Theory
It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
AKBAR GANJI

Exist Intense Involve Like Living Position Tension Wife
There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Media More Opposition Outside Voice
Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Mass Province
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.
AKBAR GANJI

Case Country Explosion Happen heavy Nuclear People Price Serious Western Worried
We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
AKBAR GANJI

Belief Country Equal Nation Nuclear People Progam Right Same
[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
AKBAR GANJI

Accomplish Expect General Revolution Revolutionary
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
AKBAR GANJI

Crisis Damage Democracy First Harm Thing
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJI

Helpful International Pressure Regime Release Secure Universal
I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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Front Itself Participate War
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
The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
AKBAR GANJI

Began Change Condition Create Revolution Situation
They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Gate Lie Themselves
We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Everyone Kind Oppression Subject Two Unique Universal
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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Billion Country History Revenue Revolution Unheard

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