The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
AKBAR GANJINegotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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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.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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They 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.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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?
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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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