I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

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.

Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.

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."

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

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

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.