We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
AKBAR GANJIWhatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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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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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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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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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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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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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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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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