When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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