They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJIYou cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with 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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