The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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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 Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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