Of 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.
AKBAR GANJI
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Of 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.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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 went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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