Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

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.

I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.

I am only speaking of my own behalf.

Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

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

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