The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
AKBAR GANJIKhomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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