black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It 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 Ganji

There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
AKBAR GANJI

Expectation Explosion Occur Revolution Rising Theory Variety
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.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Idea Myself Population Same Speak Support Time Wide
Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
AKBAR GANJI

Brutal Country Massive Recent Square Suppresses Witness Woman
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 GANJI

Domain Kind Lying Matter Nuclear Part Public Reactor Tie West
Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Mass Province
Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
AKBAR GANJI

Change Country Everyone Must Oppose Regime
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJI

Act Country Defiance Each Possible Such
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 GANJI

Belief Country Equal Nation Nuclear People Progam Right Same
Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
AKBAR GANJI

Circumstance Country Oil Result Today
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.
AKBAR GANJI

Budget Collect Consequence Monies Obvious Problem Result Structure Sum
The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJI

Disarmament Nuclear Region United States
There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Media More Opposition Outside Voice
I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
AKBAR GANJI

Demand Dream Live Melt Paradise Result Witness
The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJI

Happen Regime Revolution Situation White
What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
AKBAR GANJI

Case Country Explosion Happen heavy Nuclear People Price Serious Western Worried
The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
AKBAR GANJI

Discourse Encourage Entirely Kind Man People Such

It 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Akbar Ganji Quotes