We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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