The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

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

I have never had a governmental position, and I will never accept such a position.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

People are fundamentally good. But conditions deteriorate them.

The role of Iran has been very destructive. As an Iranian, I apologize to the civilian people of Syria who have been killed as a result of the useless intervention of Iran in Syria.

Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. I am referring to the case of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the United Nations has reminded the United States repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the United Nations.