The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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