They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJIHe never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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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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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 is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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 ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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 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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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