But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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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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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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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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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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