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?
AKBAR GANJIWe should put away the militaristic outlook.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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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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