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 GANJIWould Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with 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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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