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Akbar Ganji

Akbar Ganji is one of Iran’s leading political dissidents and has received over a dozen human rights awards for his efforts. Imprisoned in Iran until 2006, he is author of one book in English, The Road to Democracy in Iran, which lays out a strategy for a nonviolent transition to democracy in Iran.

Articles

Including translations of Khamenei's speeches from 1990 to the present.

Akbar Ganji

What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?

Akbar Ganji

Hassan Rouhani’s presidential election creates an opportunity for negotiations with Iran. President Obama should seize it.

Akbar Ganji

Harsher Measures Against Iran Won't Work.

Akbar Ganji
Akbar Ganji Accepts the Friedman Prize.
Akbar Ganji, Hamid Dabashi

Gender Apartheid in Iran.

Akbar Ganji

Changing Iran from within.

Akbar Ganji

Forum Responses

After Egypt’s revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood emerged as the most organized political party and the one most likely to resist the army’s push to regain absolute control. In order to get rid...
Akbar Ganji

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