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Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian جمهوری اسلامی ايران), transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān), formerly known internationally as Persia, is a Southwest Asian country located in the geographical territories of the Middle East and South Asia.
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- Where are your valiant warriors and your priests? Where are your hunting parties and your feasts? Where is that warlike mien, and where are those? Great armies that destroyed our country's foes? . . . Count Iran as a ruin, as the lair of lions and leopards! Look now and despair!
- I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
- Democritus as quoted in "Causation"
- Kaiumers first sat upon the throne of Persia, and was master of the world.
- Iran's civilization and culture has become imbued and infused with humanitarianism, respect for the life, belief and faith of others, propagation of tolerance and compromise and avoidance of violence, bloodshed and war. The luminaries of Iranian literature, in particular our Gnostic literature, from Hafiz, Mowlavi [better known in the West as Rumi] and Attar to Saadi, Sanaei, Naser Khosrow and Nezami, are emissaries of this humanitarian culture.
- If we ask Germans how powerful Germany is, they will say the power of Germany is to the extend that German tanks can go. If you ask French how powerful is France they will say it is to the extend that their guns can fire and if you ask the Arabs that how powerful you are they will say to the extend that our swords can kill. But it is different about Iranians. Iranians never call themselves as Iran Empire or terms like these. They always talk about Iran sphere of power. Sphere of power means to the extend that minds and thoughts can work.
- Professor Bert Fragner, the influential Austrian Iranologist and the president of Austrian Iranology Institute as quoted in "Iran keen to promote peace and stability in Mideast" by IRNA
- Iran is the land of lofty mystics and a treasure of spirituality.
- Professor Majd Nasseri, chair of mysticism center in Australia, as quoted in "Iran Helping Turkey Organize Rumi Confab" in Iran Daily (17 March 2007)
- I come from the noble land of Iran, representing a great and renowned nation, famous for its age old civilization as well as its distinguished contribution to the founding and expansion of the Islamic civilization; a nation that has survived the strong winds of despotism, reactionism and submission, relying on its cultural and human wealth; a nation which pioneered in the East the establishment of civil society and constitutional government in the course of its contemporary history, even though as a result of foreign interference and domestic deficiencies, at times it may have faltered in its course; a nation which has been at the forefront of the struggle for independence and against colonialism, though its national movement was subverted by a foreign- orchestrated coup. And, a nation which carries the torch of its popular revolution, not won by force of arms or a coup, but by dethroning of the regime of coup d'etat through the power of "word" and "enlightenment". In the course of its new experience, our nation has endured eight years of an imposed war, pressure, sanctions and various allegations. It has also fallen victim to terrorism, this ominous and sinister phenomenon of the twentieth century.
- Our country was very rich and Iranians were considered rich, educated people. You had a real intellectual elite in Iran then.
- Marjane Satrapi, renowned novelist and film director. As quoted in "Marjane Satrapi Returns" (2007)
- All of us are Iranian and wherever and in whatever post we are should try to elevate status of our dear country.
- Professor Majid Samii, Founding President for the Congress of International Neurosurgeons (MASCIN) as quoted in "Iranian professor says his medal belongs to whole Iranians" by IRNA (29 September 2007)
- Whereas now Iranian cinema shows the Iranian people to the world. The US has tried very hard to make an entire people out to be terrorists. The Iranian cinema tries to say that the Iranian people are very warm and poetic people.
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, president of Asian Film Academy as quoted in "Gabbeh and A Moment of Innocence: two films directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf" (23 September 2006)
- Iran has a long history. People of the world can learn much from the portrayal of Iranian civilization by the Iranian arts over such a long period of time.
- Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, California State University as quoted in "Iranian culture in the Eyes of Americans" by Moj News Agency (2007)
- In Iran, the walls of homes are transparent and the halls of justice are opaque. This ‘morality’ campaign shows how fragile respect for privacy and personal dignity is in Iran today.
- Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East division of Human Rights Watch, as quoted in "Iran: End Arrests on Immorality Charges" at Human Rights News (17 May 2007)
- We like to forget the history, Iranians don't. In 1953, The United States and Britain overthrew the parliamentary government [in Iran] and installed a brutal dictator. [...] In 1979, the population overthrew the dictator. And since then the United States has been essentially torturing Iran: First tried the military coup and then supported Saddam Hossein during Iraq’s invasion of Iran which killed hundreds of thousands of people and after that United States started imposing harsh sanctions on Iran.
- Noam Chomsky as quoted in The Real News (November 2007)
