Quotes by Hooman Majd - Page 1

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.
Hooman Majd / Journalist
Iran
Lack Of Knowledge
People
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I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.
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America
Believe
Mean
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It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.
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Islamic
Issues
Ramadan
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The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.
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Hurt
Play
Stupid
Utterance
Reaction
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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.
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Age
Educated
Iran
West
Years
Young Age
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Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.
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Intention
Political
Real
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The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.
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Science
Technology
Advancement
Emphasis
Islamic
Metropolis
Republic
Tehran
Islamic Republic
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I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.
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Short Story
Published
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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 single decision.
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Decision
Iran
Political
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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 to most Americans.
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Country
Iran
Turkeys
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If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"
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Done
Guy
Ridiculous
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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; it's not like they can't snoop on it.
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Cell Phone
Cells
Iran
Phones
Address
Bugged
Cell
Phone
Emails
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As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.
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Music Business
No Reason
Accidentally
Business Great Music
Business Music Great
Great Career
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Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.
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Approved
Interpreter
Iranian
Acts
Assigned
Guide
Journalists
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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 as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
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College
Fiction Writing
Sound
Writing
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I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.
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Loyalty
Iranian
Home Myself Thinking
Dual
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If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.
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Feelings
Iran
Political
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Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.
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Iran
Sensibility
Well Educated
Government People True
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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 difference that Iran is probably more influential than Turkey in affairs that are of interest to us.
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Country
Iran
Islamic
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Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.
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Attitude
Iran
Media
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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 as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat.
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War
Media
Military
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He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.
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Escaping
Paris
Taken
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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 American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it-at least culturally.
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Loyalty
Home
Parent
Thinking
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A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.
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Car
Bumper
Bumper Sticker
Doubt
Drivers
Faded
Lucky
Proud
Sticker
Popular
Old Enough
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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 society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.
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Jesus
Christian
Iran
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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 the benefits of our largesse, handing out aid and having American companies based in their countries?" and "our culture is great," and all that. It's hard for us to imagine ourselves as not being the greatest country on earth.
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Attitude
Country
Thinking
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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 educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true. There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.
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Educated
Frustrating
People
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I think that the big issue people haven't talked about for the Iranians - and, obviously, for the Americans - is Iraq. Iran can be a tremendous help to the United States in Iraq. I don't think the Iranians have a particular preference for John McCain or Barack Obam - for them, it's the candidate who is willing to recognize that they are an important country that can have a serious effect on Middle East peace.
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People
Thinking
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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 finger on the button. But the reality is that Iran's system of government is actually very complex. It has a lot of checks and balances, and neither Ahmadinejad nor any Iranian president would ever have his finger on the button. There are too many people involved in a decision of that magnitude.
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People
Reality
Thinking
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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 much object to that. They are very proud of their own history, but they have this real inferiority-superiority complex thing about the Arabs and the position of Islam in Iran. One of the reasons why Shi'a Islam is so entrenched in Iran is because it has allowed the Iranians to distinguish themselves from the Arabs, who are mostly Sunni.
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Confusion
Country
Real
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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 government is actually more open about it than they are about some of the other ills in society. They just don't want to talk about things that might relate to a Western lifestyle even though they know that Iranians indulge. Because there is no real public life left in Iran - people go and have dinner and then everything retreats behind these Persian walls.
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People
Real
Wall
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An interesting thing about the religious people who run Iran is that one of their problems with Ahmadinejad, who they thought would be one of their guys because he's so religious, is that he actually has some really nutty ideas about religion. He's too religious. He's too literal. I mean, there are plenty of people in Iran who like Ahmadinejad's religious beliefs, just as there are plenty of Christian fundamentalists in America who like George W. Bush's beliefs. But there are also plenty of people who are very uncomfortable with his overt religiosity.
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Running
Christian
Religious
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