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.
AKBAR GANJIWould 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?
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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 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.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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.
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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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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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