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 changed.

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

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

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

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

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 classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.