The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
AKBAR GANJII went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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