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.

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 could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.

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 living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.

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

We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.

I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

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