Imam Mohammad Tawhidi

I used to support Khamenei.

I used to support these criminals.

But the thing is, I came from a society that allowed me to read whatever book I wanted to read and to visit whatever scholar I wanted to visit and sit with.

For you to now tell me I cannot do that, I didn't come from Uzbekistan or Pakistan or Iraq like other students were.

No, I came from the West.

You cannot tell me I can't read certain books.

So that triggered it for me.

In a classroom that happened, where they told you you can't read those books?

Oh, no, no, no.

What would happen is...

I would naturally see signs of scholars in their offices.

I would go to their office and they would give me books.

So I would take the books back to the dormitory.

And before I knew it, my dormitory was broken into.

They searched me when I was praying.

Congregational prayers.

They searched my room.

And when I came back, I found everything was not how I left it.

And it bothered me.

And so I began to understand there's an issue here that I was not aware of.