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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?


Azar Nafisi


#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.


Azar Nafisi


#author #bad #ever #issue #just

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.


Azar Nafisi


#dismiss #iran #islamic #more #part

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.


Azar Nafisi


#american literature #degree #english #finally #got

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.


Azar Nafisi


#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.


Azar Nafisi


#american dream #best #best work #compromise #dream

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.


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#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

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


Azar Nafisi


#deprived #history #iranian #just #past

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.


Azar Nafisi


#forbid #governments #interested #iran #like

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.


Azar Nafisi


#i #implementation #revolution #rules #struggling






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