The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
AKBAR GANJIWe should put away the militaristic outlook.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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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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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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