They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJIThe most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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 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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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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