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?
AKBAR GANJIWe recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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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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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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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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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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