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.
AKBAR GANJIIran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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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?
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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