I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

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

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.

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

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

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.