Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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