I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.
I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.
There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
There are plenty of Muslims who live faithfully in the United States.
At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian people.
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings.
The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'