We should put away the militaristic outlook.
AKBAR GANJIRecently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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 no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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