The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
AKBAR GANJIIf you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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