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What do you mean? What I'm saying is that people's relations with this republic and their revolution is strong. I myself and hundreds of thousands of people like me have been nurtured in this Islamic culture. We believe that the ideals for which we mounted a revolution can provide us with both material and spiritual growth and also guarantee our well-being in the other world, and hence, allow us to live with dignity in this world. I and thousands like me who fought Saddam's forces in the battlefields are bringing the same mentality to our work...
...about Iran's youth, who form a majority of Iran's population and have no memory of the revolution and at best very little memory of the war...? That doesn't mean that they're distancing themselves from the revolution. That's where the West is wrong. The shining example for that is their participation in these last parliamentary elections, where more than half of the ballots were cast by young people 30 and below. But it's natural that these younger generations have newer outlooks on life and we must accommodate them. The world is going through constant change...
...economy has also been adversely affected by the sanctions. Certainly, our negative relations with the West have an impact on our economy, we can't deny that. Our relations have led to what we see today, which is a third round of sanctions. But this does not mean that because of these problems we will withdraw our claim to our rights. I think the world must accept that the issue of nuclear energy is a technical and legal issue; it is not a political and security issue. However, it is clear that we could have used better means of conveying...
...youngest. I had to ask them to leave the country because I was worried about them, honestly. I was worried myself too, because I am in this line of business. Not just this line of business, I mean, in Iraq, you don't know when you're going to be killed: a car bomb, an accident, all these kinds of things, the militias. You have to minimize your appearance in some situations so I was worried about them. So I decided to send them to Amman...
...freedom. You could talk, and then suddenly things started coming down. This is the way I would put it. It kept going down. And it didn't go the way America had promised it would happen, if you know what I mean. I don't know [what went wrong], but I will tell you something: America did plan the war very well, but they didn't plan to govern Iraq. And this is a problem...