Iran Quotes - Page 14

• So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

  John McCain

  Space, Firsts, Want

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• The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

  Elliott Abrams

  Issues, Land, Bridges

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• Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.

  Bill Maher

  Newts, Gas, Bombing

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• The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

  Reza Aslan

  Hurt, People, Revolutionary

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• Here's something that I believe we have to do as we put together an international coalition, and that is we have to understand that the Muslim nations in the region - Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Jordan - all of these nations, they're going to have to get their hands dirty, their boots on the ground. They are going to have to take on ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Dirty, Isis

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Fighting, Russia

  Source: time.com

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• There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course and that is what gets all the attention, there's two countries in the world right now that actually have a Federal mandate to enact penal law according to the Sharia, that's Saudi Arabia, and Iran.

  Mark Durie

  Country, Law, Two

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.

  Barack Obama

  Unique, Opportunity, Government

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• Over more than a decade, Iran had moved ahead with its nuclear program. And before the deal, it had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that could enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Nuclear, Bombs, Program

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Bombs, Plutonium, Completion

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• International inspectors are on the ground and Iran is being subjected to the most comprehensive, intrusive inspection regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program. Inspectors will monitor Iran's key nuclear facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For decades to come, inspectors will have access to Iran's entire nuclear supply chain. In other words, if Iran tries to cheat - if they try to find build a bomb covertly, we will catch them.

  Barack Obama

  Keys, Years, Trying

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.

  Noam Chomsky

  Trying, Nuclear, Weapons

  "Noam Chomsky: Talking About Iran Sanctions Is ‘Surreal’" by Andrew Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2014.

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• The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Nuclear, Bombs

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Mistake, Feels, Hard Questions

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• Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Kissing, Rights, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're [Iran] not dismantling anything. We are uninstalling some centrifuges and reconstructing the Arak reactor, modernizing it. . . . The remaining activities that we need undertake will not take more than several days, less than two weeks.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Two, Needs, Week

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• Certainly would never have made that horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran where they get $150 billion. They're a terrorist nation.

  Donald Trump

  Made, Terrorist, Horrible

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the flag. However, after returning to Iran, sadly, I learned about a very different America, an America that most Americans have no idea exists. For the first couple of years this was hard to accept, and it was really painful in some ways.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Children, Couple, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

  Ike Skelton

  Army, Korea, Middle East

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• When you look at belief in such things - as do you go to heaven, is there a devil - we have more in common with (Muslin countries) Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened that us.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Turkeys, Heaven

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• It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Islamic, Doubt, Secret

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• I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an excuse to brand us as allies of Mr. Bush.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Axes, Evil, President

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• Some criticize me, thinking I'm too tolerant of the clerical regime in Iran. In response, I have to say, I have served time in prison, I have lost my position [as a judge]. Do I need to prove that I am brave? Do I need to be killed?

  Shirin Ebadi

  Thinking, Judging, Brave

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• In general, Iranians believe that all Palestinians have the right to return home and that there is no chosen people on this earth, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian. Iran had the same policy towards apartheid South Africa and at the time when it was supporting and funding the ANC [African National Congress] among other groups in South Africa, these groups were also considered to be terrorist organizations by many western governments.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Christian, Believe, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Divorce, Men, Rights

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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