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.

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.

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.

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

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

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."