Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
AKBAR GANJIBut I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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It 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.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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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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