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

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

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

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.

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

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

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.