The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
AKBAR GANJIIt 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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