Democracy Quote by Azar Nafisi

Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language…

— Azar Nafisi

I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive…

— Abbas Kiarostami

In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America…

— Mohammad Marandi

Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to…

— Barack Obama

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global…

— Allyson Schwartz

Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you…

— Marjane Satrapi

We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own,…

— Akbar Ganji

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly…

— Mohammad Marandi

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of…

— Elliott Abrams