Assumption Quote by Hooman Majd

Iran of course is Shiite, while the bulk of the Arabs are Sunni, that is a problem or could be a problem. Also, there…

— Samuel P. Huntington

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

The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

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

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

First of all, there are Persians and Arabs. The fact they share a religion, a Shiite religion, does not mean that they're close. It…

— Joe Biden

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned…

— Fareed Zakaria

During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and…

— Saddam Hussein

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big…

— Ben Affleck

I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within…

— Jason Rezaian