The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
AKBAR GANJIThe ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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’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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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