I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
AKBAR GANJIWe 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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