After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.