The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Some people he said, think that freedom means men being able to wear shorts or women to go about without the hijab.… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in)… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
It's probably more frustrating to me as an Iranian living in America than it is when I'm over there. Inside Iran, people… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
I think that the big issue people haven't talked about for the Iranians - and, obviously, for the Americans - is Iraq.… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
There has always been a confusion in the West about -Islam and about the Middle East and the assumption that the countries… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“The last Shah's father, Reza Shah, made the chador for women and the turban for men illegal in the mid 1930's...In the… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
I can't speak for all Iranians, but I think that many of them would be uncomfortable with Ahmadinejad if Iran had nuclear… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about the religious people who run Iran is that one of their problems with Ahmadinejad, who they thought would… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
“Some people he said, think that freedom means men being able to wear shorts or women to go about without the hijab. Others think… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
I think there is an American attitude that is very hard to break which is "We're great. Who wouldn't want to be like us?… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous.… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
I can't speak for all Iranians, but I think that many of them would be uncomfortable with Ahmadinejad if Iran had nuclear weapons and… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
“It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in) as the… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding. — Hooman Majd Copy Share
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age-less than a year old-and grew up and was educated in the West. I… — Hooman Majd Copy Share
