219 Quotes About Iran

What is important for Islamic states is the spreading of fundamentalism. In order to survive inside Iran, they [the Mullahs] need to export their ideas. Our friends the Saudis finance it too. Their regime is not compatible with the modern era, but they have activists in Turkey who are trying to impose their ideology.

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).

That was the first time I experienced the desperate orgiastic pleasure of this form of public mourning: it was the one place where people mingled and touched bodies and shared emotions without restraint or guilt. There was a wild, sexually flavored frenzy in the air. Later, when I saw a slogan by Khomeini saying that the Islamic Republic survives through its mourning ceremonies, I could testify to its truth.

The king was not marrying a princess; he was not giving in to the convention of arranged marriages between families of royal blood. No, he had fallen in love with a "little Iranian girl" and, as in fairy tails, he was going to follow his heart.

I came and knelt at the king's feet, and when he put the crown on my head, I felt that he had just honoured all the women of Iran. Only four years earlier we had been in the same category of the mentally handicapped: we did not even have the basic right of choosing our representatives. The crown wiped out centuries of humiliation; more surely than any law, it solemnly affirmed the equality of men and women.

I am the sunI am the seaI am the oneBy infinityI am the sparkI am the lightI am the darkAnd I am the night I am IranI am XerxesI am Zal’s sonAnd I am a beast I am God’s ownEmissaryColour my heartRed, white and green I am FerdowsiI am HafezI am SaadiRolled all in one breath Ibn SinaOmar Khayyam Look at me now Bundled in one I am the presentI am the pastI am the futureMy presence will last I am IsmailMy soul is unleashed ‘Till the day at leastThe sun sets in the east

All I Have is for Iran.

I hope that things will change, because it's a pity that a country like Iran is not where it should be, or where it has been historically. It's important for Iran, for all of the Middle East, and also for the rest of the world.

I shall never forget the tears in the eyes of the shah the day we left Iran. In that deserted runway and in the aircraft, my only thought was whether it was the last time or would [we ever] return.