Interviews

Sazegara says IRGC commanders' threats to attack Israel are aimed at a domestic audience.

Sazegara argues that the Islamic Republic is in breach of the JCPOA nuclear agreement.

A debate on Iran International's "Beyond the News" with Sadegh Zibakalam, Mohsen Sazegara and Hassan Shariatmadari, around the 40th anniversary of the revolution.

On the anniversary of the 1979 referendum that founded the Islamic Republic, Sazegara reflects on that vote and its legacy.

Sazegara discusses the case of Tehran's mayor Mohammad-Ali Najafi.

A video interview with Amber French-Griette of ICNC. Applying the conservation of energy to politics, he argues that defeated movements like the Green Movement do not disappear but resurface. He compares the Green Movement with the 1979 revolution, praising its nonviolent discipline while faulting its lack of unity,…

This is a short web listing for an episode of the BBC World Service programme Witness, posted under interviews with a link to BBC iPlayer. The episode covers the first week of February 1979, when the Shah had left and Ayatollah Khomeini had returned, making the Islamic revolution's victory seem only a matter of time.…

This is a brief post dated April 14, 2010, filed under "Interviews" on a site connected to Mohsen Sazegara. It points to a panel on the state of Iran's Green Movement, held as part of the event "Iran: Prospects for Regime Change" organized by the Foreign Policy Initiative, and links to that group's website. The page…

This page reposts Neil MacFarquhar's New York Times profile of Mohsen Sazegara. It traces his path from Khomeini aide and Revolutionary Guards co-founder to prisoner and exile. From his Virginia basement he posts nightly YouTube videos urging nonviolent resistance rooted in Rumi-style mysticism rather than martyrdom,…

A television interview with Marc Perelman on France 24, broadcast as Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the revolution and the opposition called for protests. As a founder of the Revolutionary Guard turned opponent, he discusses the Green Movement and the regime's response.

This is a short post filed under "Interviews" that links to an episode of the TV program Ideas in Action. Host Jim Glassman leads a four-guest panel on how the internet, cell phones and digital cameras have changed protest in Iran after the disputed June 2009 election. The panel asks whether YouTube, Facebook and…

He describes his first 24 hours in prison as a turning point: having dismissed reports of torture as opposition propaganda, he saw and heard it himself. On his release he went to Khomeini, with Behzad Nabavi and Ahmad Khomeini present, recounted an interrogator who claimed to punish in God's name, and told Khomeini…