As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level.
I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.
I have not seen a significant change in iranian behavior ... They are primarily working to prop up the assad regime.
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
Iranian influence is a long-term endeavor in Iraq and it's not just recently; it's been going on for quite some time.
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.
Iranian young people are one of the most pro-American populations in the Middle East.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.
As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level.