It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJII am only speaking of my own behalf.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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