We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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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.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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