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 GANJIThree of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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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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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…
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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