He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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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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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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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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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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