The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
AKBAR GANJII did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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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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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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 should put away the militaristic outlook.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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