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 was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

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.

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.

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

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