Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJIWe used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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Would 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?
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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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 modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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