Culture Quote by Hooman Majd

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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