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.
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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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