The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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