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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…

Akbar Ganji

Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJI

Freedom Idea Invariably Issue Justice Limit Place Revolution Solve
Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
AKBAR GANJI

Change Country Everyone Must Oppose Regime
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
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
The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
AKBAR GANJI

Class Face Facet Inflict Injustice Kind Lower Many Oppression Strata Suffer Upon
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
AKBAR GANJI

Discourse Left Look Man Revolution Right
The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJI

Keep Lackey Lying Opponent Regime Saying
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJI

Against Islamic Proud Revolution Rights View
They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJI

Dishonest Kind Popularist Slogan Use Willing
We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
AKBAR GANJI

Country Development Intellectual Same System Year
We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
AKBAR GANJI

Achieve Expect Hope Justice Recognize
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJI

Act Country Defiance Each Possible Such
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
AKBAR GANJI

Crisis Damage Democracy First Harm Thing
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
Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
AKBAR GANJI

Anything Best Negotiation Solve War Way Weapon
The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
AKBAR GANJI

Believe Country Dimension Issue Legal Other Realm Two

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