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 GANJII am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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