The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJIToday, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Would 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?
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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.
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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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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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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.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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