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 GANJIOf 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 GANJII, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
AKBAR GANJII did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
AKBAR GANJII 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 GANJILet me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
AKBAR GANJIKhomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJINegotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
AKBAR GANJIThey are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJIIt 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 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.
AKBAR GANJIReligion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
AKBAR GANJIThe modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
AKBAR GANJIYou cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
AKBAR GANJIEven theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJIThe number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJIAll manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
AKBAR GANJI