The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
AKBAR GANJIOf 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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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.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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