They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
AKBAR GANJIWe must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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 recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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 issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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