Compassion Quote by Kanan Makiya

“I loved that the Iranians never quite did what you thought they were going to do, or even, what you wanted them to do.…

— Lois Pryce

“Better that anger should be directed into jihad abroad than into Iran-style revolution at home.”

— Robert Lacey

“The image of Kurdish blood pumping through the heart of a little Arab boy like Ahmed was not lost on anyone.”

— Jeremy Courtney

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

I remember watching an Iranian film, 'A Separation.' When the film ended, I felt like going to Iran, getting that family together, hug them…

— Shoojit Sircar

When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty…

— Mairead Corrigan

Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted…

— George W. Bush

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering…

— Hassan Blasim

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which…

— Azar Nafisi

“Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in.”

— Bettany Hughes

“This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences”

— Azar Nafisi

The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally…

— John Mortimer