It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
AKBAR GANJII could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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