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Akbar Ganji (Persian: اکبر گنجی‎ pronunciation (help·info), born 31 January 1960 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly. A supporter of the Islamic revolution as a youth, he became disenchanted in the mid-1990s and served time in Tehran's Evin Prison from 2001 to 2006 after publishing a series of stories on the murder of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. While in prison he issued a manifesto which established him as the first "prominent dissident, believing Muslim and former revolutionary" to call for a replacement of Iran's theocratic system with "a democracy".

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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

Solve, War, Wars, Way, Weapons

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.

Lackeys, Lie, Lying, Opponents, Say, United States

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

Firsts, Place, Regime, Six, Years

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.

Differences, Dishonest, Fool, People, Use

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

Commander, Commanders, Guard, Revolutionary, Simple

All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought. . . it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual. . . be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.

Atheist, Expression, Ideas, Individual, Iranian, Private

It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

Helpful, International, Pressure, Release, Secure, Universal

I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

Against, Dismantlement, Iran

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.

Entirety, Kind, Looks, Men, Revolution

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

Advancement, Democracy, Exists, Rights, World

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.

Demand, Demands, Expectations, Regime, Rising, Strata

The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm, 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. Now, at the realm of realpolitik, because there is a global consensus against Iran, and because there are all manner of dangers facing Iran, I am opposed to this program.

Believe, China, Country, Dimensions, Iran, States

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.

Country, Nuclear, Pay, People, Worried

Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don't have a nationalities problem, we don't have an ethnic problem. It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.

Believe, Exist, Iran, Mosaddeq, Nationalities, Wife

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.

Expected, Justice, Passed, Process, Revolution

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

Creating, Democratic, Human, Rights, Struggle

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.

Black, Iran, Market, Materials, People, Secondhand

The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.

Everything, Information, Iran, Movement

The Shah's regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened, the situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created. . . we simply wanted to change the regime.

Incorrigible, Regime, Regimes, Revolution, Situation

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.

Context, Development, Overall, Political, Problem, Solutions

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