Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonl….

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt..

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people..

The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran, so the….

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan..

There has always been a confusion in the West about -Islam and about the Middle East and the assumption that the countries are Arab. Iranians very mu….

It's probably more frustrating to me as an Iranian living in America than it is when I'm over there. Inside Iran, people are actually quite well educ….

I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did..

I can't speak for all Iranians, but I think that many of them would be uncomfortable with Ahmadinejad if Iran had nuclear weapons and he had his fing….

I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; i….

It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal socie….

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age-less than a year old-and grew up and was educated in the West. I grew up thinking of myself as an Americ….

The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every….

Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in some ways like that... with the diffe….

If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political forc….

The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just….

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is ….

I think there is an American attitude that is very hard to break which is "We're great. Who wouldn't want to be like us? Who wouldn't want to have th….

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding..

He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this,….

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living ….