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The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.
The information I have about Iran is second hand.
I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.
The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.
The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.
In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be "re-converted" or put to death.
Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.
What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?
The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.
We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.
We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.
I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.
I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.
Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Baghdad reads.
The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.
We want the people, in their private lives, to be completely free, and in today's world, having access to information and the right of free dialogue and the right to think freely is the right of all peoples, including the people of Iran.
Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in some ways like that ... with the difference that Iran is probably more influential than Turkey.
Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.
I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.
Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.
Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.
A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.
Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.
There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
Iran may have attacked ISIS. Do you know how long it's been since I have been able to wear my "Go Iran" T-shirt?
We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists. We are going to follow on this path.
Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
Religion for them [Iranians] was like a promise and guarantee of finding something that would radically change their subjectivity
I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.
Sanaz Minaei [business woman] shows a visitor a cooking class at one of her several companies and says the opportunities for Iran are huge if only the country can rejoin the global economy as promised.
Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.
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.
There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.
We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].
The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.
Meetings as "real gaps" between world powers and Tehran. Meanwhile, Russia has signed a contract to build two more nuclear reactors in Iran,
Part of the myth of Persian benevolence is the idea of an end to the exile in 539. But all that was ended was Neo-Babylonian hegemony, to be replaced by that of the Persians. (p. 65)
The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.
The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.
In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.
British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.
If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.
In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.
In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.
I was a VIP, a Very Iranian Person, and things just take longer for us.
My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.
The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.
I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East.
Iran has a dismal record on human rights.
I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.
Abu Dhabi is the hub of hell in August.
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.
Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.
When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.
Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.
I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.
The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.
The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.
The Iranian revolution of 1906 gave Zoroastrians a seat in the country's parliament.
He [Mosaddegh] was part of a generation of Iranian men who were inspired by Europe but who expected their wives to remain Iranian. (p37)
Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town.
You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works.
I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.