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.
AKBAR GANJIThe regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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 women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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 number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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