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.

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?"

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."

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.

Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.