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.
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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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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