We should put away the militaristic outlook.
AKBAR GANJII am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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.
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