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

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

In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters...part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them. We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these. They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.

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

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

The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran]. There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.

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.