Iran Quotes - Page 5

• What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Decision, Hezbollah

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Suffering, Democracy, Thank God

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 233, 1991.

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• There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

  Hooman Majd

  People, Lack Of Knowledge, Iranian

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• The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Eye, Years, Civilization

  Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Winning, Isis

  Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at a joint meeting of Congress, www.nytimes.com. March 3, 2015.

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• [Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia] are here because they could offer very essential and important help, because the situation that we are facing now is not only about a few terrorists from within Syria; it's like international war against Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Russia, Important

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

  Ali Khamenei

  Islamic, Israel, Maps

  "The Iranian Regime on Israel's Right to Exist". www.theatlantic.com. March 09, 2015.

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• It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Rights, Half

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• That may prevent us from getting a deal done, It is there to be had. Whether ultimately Iran can seize that opportunity - we will have to wait and see, but it is not for lack of trying on our part.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Waiting, Trying

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• You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Government, Views

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Nuclear Iran, United States, Weapons

  "Should The World Brace For An Iran-Israel War?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. September 28, 2012.

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• I fully share the Congress's objective of promoting nonproliferation and combating Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile delivery systems. This issue remains at the top of the agenda with Russia as well as with other countries whose companies may be providing such assistance to Iran. In the case of Russian entities' cooperation with Iran, we have imposed penalties ten times in the past and stand ready to apply them again whenever necessary.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Past, Issues

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.462, Best Books on

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• When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Political, Effort

  "Debate: Attacking Iran, AIPAC, Israel-Palestine and Obama with Rashid Khalidi and Jonathan Tobin", www.democracynow.org. March 5, 2012.

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• Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Nuclear Iran, Peaceful

  "Barack Obama speaks to to the UN general assembly - US politics live" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Israel, Nuclear, Campaigns

  "Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu". readersupportednews.org. August 28, 2014.

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• I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Made, Graves

  "The Case Against Obama - In His Own Words" by Lorie Byrd, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 22, 2008.

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• Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

  Barack Obama

  President, American History, Lost

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• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Home

  "Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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• A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

  Richard Engel

  War, Iraq, Empowerment

  "Engel:'I've seen so many ugly things'". "War Zone Diary 2008", www.nbcnews.com. July 6, 2008.

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• Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Cuba

  "McCain criticizes Obama on foreign policies". www.nytimes.com. May 20, 2008.

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• If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Doe, Steps

  Barack Obama's speech on the meeting of the P5 plus 1 regarding Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 1, 2009.

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• Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

  Barack Obama

  President, Unlimited, Said

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• Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .

  Barack Obama

  Nuclear, Limits, Program

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• To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Issues, Community

  Obama's Super Tuesday Press conference, whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Community, Nuclear

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