If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.

Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

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.

I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.

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

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

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