There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJIReligion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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