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 dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

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.

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

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

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 United States.

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 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 dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.