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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.

  Akbar Ganji

  Dream, Hunger Strike, Paradise

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• Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

  Akbar Ganji

  Clever, Expectations, Perspective

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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. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

  Akbar Ganji

  Expectations, Revolution, Rising

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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.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, Possibility, Demonstration

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• The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran]. There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.

  Akbar Ganji

  Media, Iran, Voice

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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.

  Akbar Ganji

  Justice, Revolution, Process

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• [In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

  Akbar Ganji

  Revolution, Revolutionary, Accomplish

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• The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

  Akbar Ganji

  Path, Revolution, Helping

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• I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.

  Akbar Ganji

  War, Fronts

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• I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

  Akbar Ganji

  Simple, Revolutionary, Commanders

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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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  Men, Revolution, Looks

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• Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?Of course, everyone knows that I'm also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.

  Akbar Ganji

  Ideas, United States, Accepting

  Interview With Reese Erlich, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2007.

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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.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, People, Sides

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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.

  Akbar Ganji

  Class, Suffering, Faces

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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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  Political, Development, Problem

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• Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.

  Akbar Ganji

  Uprising, Squares, Azerbaijan

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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.

  Akbar Ganji

  Unique, Iran, Two

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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. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

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  Differences, People, Fool

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• Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market. It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, People, Black

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• I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran

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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.

  Akbar Ganji

  Space, Iran, Years

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• What I'm worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.

  Akbar Ganji

  Country, People, Nuclear

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