Shappi Khorsandi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.
It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.
Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

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