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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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