We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.

Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

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

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

The Shah's regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened, the situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created...we simply wanted to change the regime.

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.

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.