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

I am only speaking of my own behalf.

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

It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by, we recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.

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.

You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

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.