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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' -- Henry Rollins
When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. -- Azar Nafisi
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning. -- Mustafa Akyol
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. -- Stephen Rodrick
The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology. -- Hooman Majd
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. -- Marjane Satrapi
The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. -- Elliott Abrams
I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States. -- Reza Aslan
We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event. -- Chris Terrio
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries. -- Bahman Ghobadi
There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. -- Cynthia McKinney
And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome. -- Otto Schily
Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. -- Nancy Gibbs
Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us. -- Leon Panetta
The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran. -- John Bolton
Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran. -- Ayad Allawi
We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. -- Marjane Satrapi
Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen. -- Bernie Sanders
We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities. -- Walid Jumblatt
Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town hall meeting in Tehran. That's telling 'em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they'd call her bluff. -- Mark Steyn
Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases? -- Yasser Arafat
If the Sunni and Shia, or those nations that surround Saudi Arabia and those nations that gather around Tehran or Iran fight each other, that is the trigger that will bring about the War of Armageddon. -- Louis Farrakhan
In 2009, US President [Barack] Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with Iran that bans Tehran from developing a potential military nuclear project. -- Vladimir Putin
Iranians also see external reasons for caution. Analyst Foad Izadi at Tehran University says Iranians only need to look at the chaos plaguing the region to see how easily popular demands for change can get out of hand. -- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day. -- Lester R. Brown
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. -- Lester R. Brown
America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution. -- Rich Lowry
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal. -- Khaled Hosseini

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