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

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.

Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.

I 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."

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

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.

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.