Authority Quote by Christopher Hitchens

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

— Richard Engel

Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country.

— Gegard Mousasi

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

— Shirin Ebadi

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and…

— Azar Nafisi

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are…

— Asghar Farhadi

There has always been a confusion in the West about -Islam and about the Middle East and the assumption that the countries are Arab.…

— Hooman Majd

I was born in Tehran at a time when women's rights were deteriorating at a rampant rate. My parents didn't want to raise their…

— Nazanin Boniadi

Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled from one…

— Shahin Najafi

Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You will never…

— Adel al-Jubeir

There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.

— Barack Obama

[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that.

— Bernie Sanders