It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJIIt was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJIThe lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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?”
AKBAR GANJIThe ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
AKBAR GANJIThe issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
AKBAR GANJIHe never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
AKBAR GANJIIn a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
AKBAR GANJIYou cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
AKBAR GANJIRevolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJINegotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
AKBAR GANJILet me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJIToday, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
AKBAR GANJIWould 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?
AKBAR GANJII, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
AKBAR GANJIIt 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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