There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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