The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
AKBAR GANJIThe entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJIWhen women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
AKBAR GANJIWe recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
AKBAR GANJIIn Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
AKBAR GANJIIt 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.
AKBAR GANJIIf you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
AKBAR GANJIWell-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
AKBAR GANJII am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIThe modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
AKBAR GANJIToday, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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?”
AKBAR GANJIIt 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.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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…
AKBAR GANJII did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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