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 di….

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..

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, ….

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 disco….

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 da….

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 h….

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 exp….

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 Uni….

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….

In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters...part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them. We ….

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

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

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 ….

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 fir….

The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran]. There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposi….

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 Un….

There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on..

Religion is separate from the institution of the state..

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 class….

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 ….

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 ….