The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
AKBAR GANJIWe can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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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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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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