“The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.”

It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.

The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.

The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].

We should put away the militaristic outlook.

We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.

They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

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

The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.

You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…

There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.

The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.

Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

To bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn … seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.

On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.

And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.

Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.

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.