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.
Akbar GanjiWhy 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.
Akbar GanjiThe 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.
Akbar GanjiI did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
Akbar GanjiLet me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.
Akbar GanjiWould 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