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.
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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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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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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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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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