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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.

Akbar Ganji

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.
AKBAR GANJI

First Illegal Place Prison Regime Six Year
We should put away the militaristic outlook.
AKBAR GANJI

Away Disarmament Nuclear Outlook Talking
The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
AKBAR GANJI

Difference Fool Kind Other People Popular Side Slogan
When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
AKBAR GANJI

Anything Budget Everyone Oppose Say Thinking
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 GANJI

Dream Guard Hospital Hunger Strike Inflict Injustice Manner Paradise
When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
AKBAR GANJI

Consider Example Giving Secularism Talking Theory
Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
AKBAR GANJI

Brutal Country Massive Recent Square Suppresses Witness Woman
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 GANJI

Atheist Conscious Expression Freedom Idea Manner Society Tolerance
I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
AKBAR GANJI

Commander Guard Join Revolutionary Simple
Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJI

Change Constant Even Revise Theory
They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
AKBAR GANJI

Gate Lie Themselves
Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
AKBAR GANJI

Accept Country Decide Excess Expect Govern Idea Ideas Ruler
Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
AKBAR GANJI

Believe Country Ethnic National People Problem Supporter Wife
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.
AKBAR GANJI

Development Distraught Lower Political Problem Society Solution Solve Strata
Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
AKBAR GANJI

Billion Country History Revenue Revolution Unheard
The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
AKBAR GANJI

Between Democracy Human Important Oppose Right Society Support

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