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

I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.

The Shah's regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened, the situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created...we simply wanted to change the regime.

I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

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.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

I am only speaking of my own behalf.

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.

There's all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process, they obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.