Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.
Farah DibaI hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
Farah DibaYou have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.
Farah DibaThere are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
Farah DibaI remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."
Farah Diba