Able Quote by Shohreh Aghdashloo

As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I established relationships with so many of those Iran students that went on for years.And they were so different from American students. They seemed…

— David C. Driskell

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

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

— Nick McDonell

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

— Shirin Ebadi

I'm not an Iran expert.

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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 have studied at the school of the world.

— Youssou N'Dour

I was an international studies major.

— Anna Chlumsky

I graduated with a foreign affairs/Middle East studies degree with a minor in Arabic from UVA in 2002.

— Margaret Brennan

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters…

— Alan Dershowitz

At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian…

— Hassan Rouhani