Ebadi was born in 1947 to liberal academic parents who did not send her to Islamic schools. “I went to a Zoroastrian school as it was a better one.”
-- Dr Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, The Week, December 10, 2006
“Why should we have exchange controls...? In 6,000 years of recorded history, great trading empires have flourished with no exchange controls!”
“The only way I can respond to this question is to quote Ferdowsi’s Shah-Nameh: ‘How did they hold the world in the beginning, and why is it that it has been left to us in such a sorry state?......