Quote by Maziar Bahari

“When I saw my backside, I gasped. “I have no ass!” I said aloud. “They have left me no ass!”

— Maziar Bahari

“After, presumably, Rosewater found out that Chekhov was not Jewish, he did not bother with any more questions about people with surnames ending with…

— Maziar Bahari

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, Maziar,” he said sarcastically. “Don’t play games with me, or you will make me angry again. Don’t tell me that you…

— Maziar Bahari

“Jafaa. In Persian, this very poetic word refers to all the wrongs you do to those who love you.”

— Maziar Bahari

“Seventy-four suspended lashes for having tea with your friend!” she said, with as much hatred as I’d ever heard in her voice. “What do…

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“I detested revolutions; I believed, instead, in reconciliation and reform.”

— Maziar Bahari

“Do you think we’re like you Americans in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo who torture people by keeping them thirsty? We have something called ra’fateh…

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“We were all caught in that uncomfortable zone between trying to save our lives and betraying ourselves.”

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“You need to have your lunch before going out to report on this ashghal,” she said, referring to Ahmadinejad. Ashghal, the Persian word for…

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“The next day, Sunday, June 14, Ahmadinejad held a press conference in the office of the president, on Pasteur Street in south Tehran. In…

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“No one believes in the koseh she’r”—the bullshit—“that you’re going to say.”

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“In arranged marriages in Iran, it is customary that after the family of the boy asks the family of the girl for her hand,…

— Maziar Bahari