Activities Quote by Abdolkarim Soroush

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free…

— Shirin Ebadi

Iranians also see external reasons for caution. Analyst Foad Izadi at Tehran University says Iranians only need to look at the chaos plaguing the…

— Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in…

— Steve Inskeep

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and…

— Azar Nafisi

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The…

— Shirin Ebadi

Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper…

— Stephen Kinzer

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

— Mir-Hossein Mousavi

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

It is difficult for Iranian scholars and universities to retain their independence and to be seen as doing so, when cultural warfare is being…

— Mohammad Marandi

The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of…

— Shirin Ebadi

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

— Azar Nafisi

I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being…

— Richard A. Falk