Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
AKBAR GANJIYou cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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