The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
AKBAR GANJIThe 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.
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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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