I had seen too much. I have never gone back to Iran since. I am not a man of compromise. Beyond the veil of appearance, there is still repression and censorship in this dictatorship. Today's Iran is going through an ordeal, no more or less difficult than the previous ones.
History proves that Persia has always been a crossroads between the East and the West.
It has seen the troops of Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great, the Arab invasion and Islamization, and even Western powers. On that day I will no longer have to tell my children about Iran. I will take them by the hand and show them the Ardabil bazaar and its spices, the beauty of Iranian women, the cities of Yazd and Cashan, the treasures of Iranian architecture. I will climb the Azerbaijan mountains with them. We will bathe freely, as a family, in the Caspian Sea.