A pro-democracy activist and politician who lives in America. He was a leader of the student movement against the Shah and co-founded the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps immediately after the 1979 revolution. He has since become a critic of the organisation, arguing that it drifted from its original mission as a modest people's army into construction, politics and organised crime. He has proposed that a National Reconciliation Council—representing republicans, monarchists, ethnic groups and supporters of velayat-e faqih—could serve as a transition vehicle for Iran, potentially created by the supreme leader under the constitution in place of parliament.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.