After media speculation about a possible return to politics, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected the idea for now.

“I do not intend to enter politics,” Ahmadinejad said among a crowd of supporters in Mashhad last week. “I will not break my current silence,” he said, but added, “This silence does not mean passivity.”

Ahmadinejad, who has become more visible lately, answered some reporters’ questions and shared his ideas on governance, saying, “All of the world’s problems are because the work is not done for God. This is why corruption has happened, and happens.” Accusations against the former administration of wide-scale fraud and corruption have increased since Ahmadinejad left office.

The former president also praised Iran’s revolution for relying on “domestic capacities” and said that Iran’s “Islamic system will provide the setting for the Hidden Imam’s world revolution,” referring to Shiite Islam's twelfth and final leader. He added that the “prime goal” of the Islamic Republic of Iran was to start a movement for the “beginnings of the emergence of the Hidden Imam.”