I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
AKBAR GANJIWhen women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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