I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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?
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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