We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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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