There 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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I 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.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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 recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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