There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJII am only speaking of my own behalf.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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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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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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