They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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