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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

Akbar Ganji

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Akbar Ganji
Age: 54
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Akbar Ganǧī
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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...I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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. 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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, 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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We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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? 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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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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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, we recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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 Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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