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.
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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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 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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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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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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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 could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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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