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.
AKBAR GANJIWhen 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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