The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
AKBAR GANJIWhatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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 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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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