I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.