He 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.
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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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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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