Country Quote by Steve Inskeep

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian,…

— Hooman Majd

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free…

— Shirin Ebadi

As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need…

— Javad Alizadeh

As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and…

— Nazanin Boniadi

The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media…

— Hooman Majd

Unfortunately the situation of human rights in Iran isn't improving. Some of the newspapers were shut down and the government didn't try to reopen…

— Shirin Ebadi

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of…

— Elliott Abrams

The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of…

— Shirin Ebadi

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly…

— Mohammad Marandi

Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where…

— Annia Ciezadlo

The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.

— Hassan Rouhani