"One more threat won't change the face of the world!" sneered the old antiquarian, clinging to his jerry cans.

Then he signaled to Ahmad, his young Afgan refugee assistant, to give me a glass.

"We Jews, we're like fish swimming in a net. When everything is going well, the Iranians leave the net in the water. When things are going badly, they take it out."

— I'm Writing You from Tehran by Emma Ramadan, Delphine Minoui (Page 206)