The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
AKBAR GANJII am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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’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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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