The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJIThe number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJII 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?
AKBAR GANJIWe recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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.
AKBAR GANJIIt began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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.
AKBAR GANJIIn the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
AKBAR GANJIWhen I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
AKBAR GANJIIt was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJII, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
AKBAR GANJII am only speaking of my own behalf.
AKBAR GANJII went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
AKBAR GANJIThe regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIWhen women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
AKBAR GANJIThe entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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