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Akbar Ganji

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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First Illegal Place Prison Regime Six Year
In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Act Affair Cloth Force Individual Islamic Modern Nature Political Private Religion State Wear Women
There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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Country Media More Opposition Outside Voice
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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Change Country Everyone Must Oppose Regime
Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Institution Religion Separate State
We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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Country Everyone Kind Oppression Subject Two Unique Universal
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Helpful International Pressure Regime Release Secure Universal
I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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Actual Country Investigate Last Outside Prison Six Space Spent Work Year
We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Achieve Expect Hope Justice Recognize
I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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Behalf Own Speak
The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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Class Face Facet Inflict Injustice Kind Lower Many Oppression Strata Suffer Upon
Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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Begin Democracy Million Saying
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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Act Country Defiance Each Possible Such
All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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Atheist Conscious Expression Freedom Idea Manner Society Tolerance
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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Development Distraught Lower Political Problem Society Solution Solve Strata
When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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Anything Budget Everyone Oppose Say Thinking
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.
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Expectation Explosion Occur Revolution Rising Theory Variety
But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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Country Danger More Much One People Sure Thing West
We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Demonstration Environmental Kind Movement Organize
The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Concern Country Ecological Everything Information Movement Public
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Against Islamic Proud Revolution Rights View
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.
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Country Idea Myself Population Same Speak Support Time Wide
They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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Budget Collect Consequence Monies Obvious Problem Result Structure Sum
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Crisis Damage Democracy First Harm Thing
When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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Consider Example Giving Secularism Talking Theory
Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Change Constant Even Revise Theory
We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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Country Development Intellectual Same System Year

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