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.
AKBAR GANJIThere is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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 say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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 there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is 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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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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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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