{"quotes":[{"text":"Zoe stopped one last time in front of the mirror, adjusting her new American dress. She didn’t see the dress, however. She saw what the big Russian did to her. She saw what al-Qaeda did to her. She saw a person shunned by her Persian village. She saw ugliness. Every time she looked in the mirror she saw deficiency.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["al-qaeda","american-fashion","benzehabe","deficiency","depression","immigrant","insecurity","iran","outsider","persian","rape","russia","shame","shunned","unassimilated","western-fashion"],"id":2793,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["diplomacy","immigration","iran","kindness","michael-benzehabe","unassimilated"],"id":25187,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain.","author":"Daniel Kofman","tags":["afghanistan","antiwar-movement","axis-of-evil","despotism","foreign-policy","foreign-policy-of-the-us","interventionism","iran","iraq","iraq-war","north-korea","repression","syria","war","war-in-afghanistan-2001-present"],"id":25821,"author_id":"Daniel+Kofman"},{"text":"Anyone who is portraying Israel as a friend is a servant of Israel.I warn some sides against turning enemies into friends and friends into enemies.Some in the Arab world try to present 'Israel' as a friend and Iran as a foe.Yet such conspiracies will fail. 'Israel' has not been helping because of its hostile and aggressive nature. The Arab world is realising day after day that Iran is a friend, which was highlighted in Iran's support to Gaza and Lebanon.","author":"Hassan Nasrallah","tags":["enemies","friends","iran","israel"],"id":50018,"author_id":"Hassan+Nasrallah"},{"text":"They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.","author":"Marjane Satrapi","tags":["itarianism","censorship","fear","iran","iranian-revolution","police","secret-police"],"id":50617,"author_id":"Marjane+Satrapi"},{"text":"It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in) as the defining center of life that Iranians find living in a society with such stringent rules of public behavior somewhat tolerable. Iranian society by and large cares very little about what goes on in the homes and gardens of private citizens, but the Islamic government cares very much how its citizens behave once they venture outside their walls.","author":"Hooman Majd","tags":["iran","islam","persia","private","public","society"],"id":62899,"author_id":"Hooman+Majd"},{"text":"We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.","author":"Bernard Kouchner","tags":["iran","nuclear-program-of-iran","nuclear-weapons","preparation","war"],"id":85002,"author_id":"Bernard+Kouchner"},{"text":"Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.","author":"Jalaluddin Rumi","tags":["inspirational","iran","rumi","rumi-poetry"],"id":89717,"author_id":"Jalaluddin+Rumi"},{"text":"On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.","author":"Azin Sametipour","tags":["fiction","iran","moonlight","romance","tehran","women"],"id":133462,"author_id":"Azin+Sametipour"},{"text":"You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin.","author":"Jalaluddin Rumi","tags":["inspirational","iran","persian-poetry","rumi","rumi-poetry"],"id":154180,"author_id":"Jalaluddin+Rumi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}