I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
AKBAR GANJIWe 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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 could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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 Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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