Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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 did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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