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.
AKBAR GANJIWe 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.
AKBAR GANJII did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
AKBAR GANJIThere is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
AKBAR GANJIReligion is separate from the institution of the state.
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 GANJIHe never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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 GANJII am only speaking of my own behalf.
AKBAR GANJIIt 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 GANJIKhomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJIRevolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJIToday, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
AKBAR GANJIThere 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.
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.
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