It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJII went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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