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

Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market. It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.

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

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

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.

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.

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 discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.