black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
AKBAR GANJI

Demonstration Environmental Kind Movement Organize
I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
AKBAR GANJI

Front Itself Participate War
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
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…
AKBAR GANJI

Dream Guard Hospital Hunger Strike Inflict Injustice Manner Paradise
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
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
But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Danger More Much One People Sure Thing West
The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJI

Keep Lackey Lying Opponent Regime Saying
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.
AKBAR GANJI

First Illegal Place Prison Regime Six Year
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
AKBAR GANJI

Crisis Damage Democracy First Harm Thing
You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
AKBAR GANJI

Attack Bring Country Democracy
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
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
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
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
AKBAR GANJI

Discourse Left Look Man Revolution Right
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

Exist Intense Involve Like Living Position Tension Wife
I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
AKBAR GANJI

Commander Guard Join Revolutionary Simple
We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
AKBAR GANJI

Create Dedicate Democratic Human Right Struggle
They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
AKBAR GANJI

Gate Lie Themselves
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJI

Against Islamic Proud Revolution Rights View
It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
AKBAR GANJI

Chornobyl Clear Country Material Something Worried
When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
AKBAR GANJI

Act Back Inch Political Push Two Women
Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJI

Freedom Idea Invariably Issue Justice Limit Place Revolution Solve
Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
AKBAR GANJI

Believe Country Ethnic National People Problem Supporter Wife
Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJI

Clever Expectation Obvious Perspective Problem Side
They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJI

Dishonest Kind Popularist Slogan Use Willing
Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
AKBAR GANJI

Institution Religion Separate State

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Akbar Ganji Quotes