The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJILet me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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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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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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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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