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…
AKBAR GANJIWhy 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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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