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.
AKBAR GANJIThe issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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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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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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