The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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