They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
AKBAR GANJIWhen there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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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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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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