All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
AKBAR GANJIThey 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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.
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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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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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