We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

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

When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

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...

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as...

Israel’s demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a ‘strategic asset,’ as did its moves to prevent Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 in support of the PLO. Under the Nixon...

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...

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was,...

Hamas is regularly described as ‘Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.’ One will be hard put to find something like ‘democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state...

Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader...

Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally, in one way or another, succumb to, and then there is the domain...

It would make sense if Iran got this. This is how the Khan network worked. They had stockpiles of these things in Dubai.

I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really...

China hopes Iran will take active actions to end the current deadlock and resume discussions with the EU at an early date,

You must understand that the pressures on Syria and Islamic Iran are primarily because of their stand on the Palestinian cause.

that you all are up to something in Iran.

There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so unique, such a mixture of subtlety and brazenness, I cannot find a Western equivalent to compare it to....

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban...

Any deal that recognizes Iran “right” to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

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.

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...

On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.

Certainly, they’d had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was...

More than Iran’s enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption… a senior official in an important American political center said: ‘Instead of bombs, send...

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.

you’re already naked in this worldin this timein this lifebeacause your next loveyour next hungeryou next laughterand even your next tearmay never come

We need Iran to use maximum transparency because there are a lot of question marks about its program. They need to be assured that they can use nuclear power for electricity, but the international community...

As the many male victims of rape in the regime’s disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

Iran, Music of Afghanistan, Music of Tajikistan, Music of Sri Lanka and Music of Uzbekistan Indian classical music is one of the oldest musical traditions in the world.[12] The Indus Valley

Iran has been and still is ready to go for negotiations.

You didn’t have to think about it. Nobody every challenged you on the inside about what you thought about Iran. You just disliked them, that’s all. Suddenly that view began to be questioned.

We have seen issues in Iran that we need to understand before we can say that we are satisfied that all activities in Iran are exclusively for peaceful purposes.

We are waiting for the IAEA director general’s report. We also hope that Iran would soon make a final decision on the Russian offer for the enrichment of its uranium.

Iran’s nuclear plans will continue to pose a threat. It may shun foreign investment in its oil facilities.

The fate of the Afghan people is extremely important to Iran,

The men were smashing windows and aiming their weapons through them. The driver had opened the door and was shouting for the women and children to get out and run and hide. But Ilina realized...

Aref knelt, reached into his pocket and produced an implement made from a small stick which he called his miswak, the use of which he silently illustrated before handing her his spare. He also gave...

I don’t believe Iran is a suicide state.

We are thinking quite clearly of Iran.

THE attention of the writer having been called to the fact that all Indo-Germanic nations have worshipped crucified Saviours, an investigation of the subject was made. Overwhelming proof was obtained that the sun-myths of the...

What is important for them is talks, … The Americans want Iran to sit down at the table of talks. This propaganda campaign is aimed at showing that Iran has surrendered.

The door suddenly opened. A leggy young brunette took two steps into the office and stopped short. Her brown eyes widened, she hastily excused herself and turned to leave. Pérez’s jaw dropped as he looked...