There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

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 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.

You 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.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.