They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
AKBAR GANJIThey are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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