The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJIIn the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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 Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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