There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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 regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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