The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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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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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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