We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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