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.

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

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

There's all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process, they obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.

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

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.

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