There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
AKBAR GANJII went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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