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

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.

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

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.

I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it all, the Iranian identity has survived. People are very courageous, especially the women, who are braver than the men.

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

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.