[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
AKBAR GANJI
The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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