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.
AKBAR GANJIThere is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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