The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIAll manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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 U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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