The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.