When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy..

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….

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

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

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and….

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….

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 pric….

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

All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist so….

I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society i….

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, ….

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 ….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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

When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosa….