The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIWhat I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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