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.
AKBAR GANJIThe regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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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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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 believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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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