Contest Quote by Nancy Gibbs

There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time…

— Mohammad Marandi

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have…

— Shahrnush Parsipur

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and…

— James Buchan

A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to…

— Thomas R. Pickering

Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a 'Washington Post' journalist whose work aimed to increase cultural…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there,…

— Navid Negahban

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and…

— Azar Nafisi

In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian…

— Marjane Satrapi

“It's not actually that hard to be an expert on Iran. You only need to know two phrases: "I don't know" and "it depends.”

— kenneth pollack

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

— Marjane Satrapi