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.
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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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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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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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