When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.

I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated. A group of thinkers met to come up with ways and means to prevent yet another war. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in assembling this group of people. And that is why the name of the United States is synonymous with the cause of human rights around the world.

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west and democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.