The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
AKBAR GANJII went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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