Best 21 quotes in «iranian quotes» category

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks

A unified Iran is constituted not only politically but also affectively. Liberty and constitutional rule bring "Affection among us." The affective sentiment- that of bonding among differing brothers-produces political bonds of national unity and was associatively linked with other desires. Perhaps foremost was the desire to care for and defend the mother, in particular her bodily integrity. The same words were commonly used to discuss territory and the female body. Laura Mulvey calls these words keys "that could turn either way between the psychoanalytic and the social" (1980, 180). They are not "just words" that open up to either domain; they mediate between these domains, taking power of desire from one to the other. More appropriately, they should be considered cultural nodes of psyhosocial condensation. Tajavuz, literally meaning transgression, expresses both rape and the invasion of territory. Another effective expression, as already noted, was Khak-i pak-i vatan, the pure soil of the homeland. The word used for "pure," pak, is saturated with connotations of sexual purity. Linked to the idea of the purity of a female vatan was the metaphoric notion of the "skirt of chastity" (daman-i 'iffat) and its purity-whether it was stained or not. It was the duty of Iranian men to protect that skirt. The weak and sometimes dying figure of motherland pleaded t her dishonorable sons to arise and cut the hands of foreigners from her skirt. Expressing hope for the success of the new constitutional regime by recalling and wishing away the horrors of previous years, an article in Sur-o Israfil addressed Iran in the following terms: "O Iran! O our Mother! You who have given us milk from the blood of your veins for many long years, and who have fed us with the tissues of your own body! Will we ever live to see your unworthy children entrust your skirt of chastity to the hands of foreigners? Will our eyes ever see foreigners tear away the veil of your chastity?

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Then with his first step he goes to (the hell of) evil thoughts, with his second to (the hell of) evil words, and with his third to (the hell of) evil deeds.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

Akbar Ganji was in prison for six years, and that was it...for six years, and it was finished. Of course the Iranian government could make up some stories and accuse him of some other things, but the international support didn't let the government do that.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

Israel must be wiped off the map.

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.