Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.

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.

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.

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

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

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.