I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
AKBAR GANJIThe difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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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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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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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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In 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).
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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 talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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