Reza Aslan Iran Quotations

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science.