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.
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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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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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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