I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And… — Hillary Clinton 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
At this market in Tel Aviv, we put together a mezze platter and we had Syrian, Iraqi, Bulgarian, Venezuelan, Iranian, all doing… — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi -… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great… — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Russia and the United States are the biggest nuclear powers, this leaves us with an extra special responsibility. By the way, we… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The Iranians have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy, even though they have significant oil revenues. So I am… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“She smiled a lot, laughed easily and listened intently when others spoke. She had been battling the system her whole life, but… — Lois Pryce Copy Share Image
Michael Flynn, national security adviser, [his reaction] to the Iranian missile test the other day was very frightening. Now the missile test… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Most Iranians are sick and tired of revolutions. They've had one for the last 25 years, and they don't want another one.… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We cannot tell anything about what [Donald Trump] is going to do, but if, let's say if he is going to fight… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women,… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
“Less frightening, but no less disgusting, is the Iranian taste for jam made out of carrots.” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level. — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image