Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
AKBAR GANJII 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?
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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