Iran Quotes - Page 2

• What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Turkeys, Important

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• I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

  Frank Carlucci

  Years, Would Be, Three

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• America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran station, Egypt station, Syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: Keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother Israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Israel, Egypt

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• We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

  Hillary Clinton

  President, Nuclear, Tables

  Source: time.com

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• Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Men, University Students, Female

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East. They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don't give freedom of religion.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Rights, Israel

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• Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Past, Years, Oil

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• I want to thank my wife who I don't normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It's good. It is work, but it's the best kind of work, and there's no one I'd rather work with!

  Ben Affleck

  Wife, Want, Kind

  Ben Affleck's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 24, 2013.

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• After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the affairs of its neighbors, a policy of assassinating diplomats and of attacking embassies. Iran is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in the Kingdom, it is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia. And Iran is responsible for setting up sectarian militias in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, whose objective is to destabilize those countries.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, Iraq, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Every other country where there's absolute chaos now, what is it? They're pluralistic without consensus. Look at almost every single country, from Syria, to Iraq, to Iran, Ukraine, no matter where it is. I just think it is totally counter to our tradition.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Thinking, Iraq

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  Salman Rushdie

  West, Regimes, Fundamentalism

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• Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree of autonomy. You can imagine a kind of a loose Shi'ite alliance in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, controlling most of the world's oil and independent of the United States. And much worse, although Europe can be intimidated by the United States, China can't. It's one of the reasons, the main reasons, why China is considered a threat. We're back to the Mafia principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Independent, Rights

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Pigs, Iraq, Germany

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• Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to speak their mind without fear of arrest is palpable. But nearly seven years after authorities crushed massive street protests, reformers are still threatened with arrest and expectations for change are extremely low.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Religious, Years, Expectations

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.

  Andre Vltchek

  Latin, Russia, Color

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, Iraq, Definitions

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• The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

  Tom Lantos

  Community, Leader, Made

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• I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Voice, People, World

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

  Ehud Barak

  Long, Serious, Stability

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• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Islamic, Mean

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• In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Democracy, Reform, Movement

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• It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Kuwait, Tyrants, Hussein

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• Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Trouble, Has Beens

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.

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• Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Dear God, Threat

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• The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Rights, United States

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