In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
AKBAR GANJIThe regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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 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 should put away the militaristic outlook.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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