According to Kadivar;
Before the Iranian Islamic Revolution, there was no freedom, independence, sovereignty, or justice, and prisons were overflowing with political prisoners, in addition to cases of torture and strict censorship. Therefore, slogans were raised during the revolution in 1977 calling for freedom, justice and others.
In the same context, he stressed that the system of velayat-e faqih was not required at that stage at all.
And he talked about the personality of "Imam Ayatollah Khomeini" before the Islamic Revolution, and said that he started with Sufism and philosophy, then turned to the principles of jurisprudence, and then became a Shiite reference, but he made it clear that his influence on politics is more than on cultural issues, as he tried to change society through politics, unlike Allama Muhammad Husayn al-Tabatabai who wanted to change everything through culture.
The Iranian dissident revealed - in his speech to an episode of the "Al-Muqabala" program (21/8/2022) - about the side of the dispute between Khomeini and Ayatollah Montazeri, who the guest said was the second most prominent figure in the revolution and in the Islamic Republic, and he was a revolutionary man who spent years in prison and was tortured .
Montazeri was more inclined to liberalism, while Khomeini to authoritarianism, according to Kadivar, who denied that the reformist movement in Iran was taking advantage of Montazeri’s school, stressing that the best representative of this current is former President Muhammad Khatami, who was friendly with Montazeri, although they They did not agree.
Khomeini and Wilayat al-Faqih
And about the beginning of his disagreement with the Iranian regime, Kadivar attributed this to the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1987, where he said that he noticed unusual things in the Khomeini regime, and that those who dare to criticize tell him that your mind is unclean and must be cleaned, noting that he discovered that his vision is not It is in line with the regime's vision at that stage, and the clincher - the Iranian guest continues - after the criticism that Montazeri was subjected to against the background of statements he made criticizing practices committed by the regime, including during the Iran-Iraq war.
Kadivar became an opponent of the Islamic Republic and the theory of Wilayat al-Faqih, because his expectations were high and ambitious, stressing to the "The Interview" program that Iran "was purely Islamic, but it was not a republic, and there was Islamic control over everything that is republican."
On the issue of his arrest in 1999 against the backdrop of anti-regime statements he made to foreign media, the Iranian opposition confirmed that the matter is related to the results of research he reached after 5 years of research stating that most Iranian jurists do not believe in the political authority of the jurist, and that Khomeini and his followers are considered a small minority.
He also talked about the intellectual stages that the theory of Wilayat al-Faqih went through, and said that there were 4 stages for Khomeini, the stage of “Qom” and the stage of “Najaf,” then the stage of “Paris” and the stage of “Tehran,” noting that Khomeini thought that he could rule the country through the application of Islamic law. However, he was quickly convinced that this was not enough, and then there was a shift in his rule after that, and he established an institution for the diagnosis of the interests of the regime and its interests, and he reached his goal.
It is reported that Kadivar is an opponent of the velayat-e faqih system and sees it as representing the minority in the Shiite sect, and he is a religious scholar, reformist Iranian Islamic thinker and contemporary philosopher.
He studied electrical engineering in Shiraz - where he was born - two years before the victory of the revolution in 1977, then went to Qom to study religious sciences.