Roya Hakakian Quotations

The United States went into Iraq because we wanted them to be a model for secular democracy. We wanted to dress them up and be our own boutique. And it is fair to say we have not accomplished that.

They reached that point without army occupancy and it is important that they accomplished it themselves because the Iranians can say they did something great and did it on their own to future generations. It gives the country dignity.

In 1978 when the revolution was happening it was not an Islamic Revolution, and many people involved were not Islamic fundamentalists by any stretch of the imagination.