It is totally unacceptable for a government to interfere in the internal affairs of another government and send aid, money, and weapons, to the people who are against a certain regime in another country.

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

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.

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

Maybe the words are the same, but the time is not the same. Iranians weren't working on achieving nuclear energy.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.