Quotes by Hooman Majd

Hooman Majd

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

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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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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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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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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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I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.

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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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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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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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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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Quotes by Hooman Majd

Hooman Majd

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

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.

I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.

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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