He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
AKBAR GANJII went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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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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