Iran Quotes - Page 20

• The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.

  Ted Cruz

  Russia, Enemy, Warfare

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

  Ted Cruz

  Office, Hostage

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for a freer society and where people are repressed by a small group of ayatollahs. I see Syria, where we can see a similar desire of the people to be free. These two countries fund Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations and are hurting our efforts in Afghanistan and have been extremely harmful in Iraq. Then I also see large, important countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Strong, Hurt

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Phones, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

  Barack Obama

  People, World, Hezbollah

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatures to the treaty and therefore that we can’t deny Iran the rights due to it as a signature of the NPT.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Rights, Proliferation Treaty, Important

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.

  Barack Obama

  People, Peaceful, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Artistic, Censorship, Difficult

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter [in which Sally Field plays an American who rescues her daughter from her estranged in-laws in Iran]; I heard so many things like that. I did not make Persepolis for Iranians. It was my answer to the rest of the world, to say, "Let me give you another point of view."

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Daughter, Stupid

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Election, Participating

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• Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, President, United States

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Games, Years, Atmosphere

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• In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Book, Israel

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Past, America, United States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Rights, Government, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people of Iran go to the United States to see America, this can shorten the walls of mistrust and improve the situation for the future.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Wall, America, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Growing Up, Math, Opportunity

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature.

  Shahrnush Parsipur

  Writing, Important, Literature

  Source: www.parsarts.com

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• Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

  Robin Cook

  Brother, Korea, Usa

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• Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

  Steve Forbes

  Real, Thinking, Blow

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

  Scott Walker

  Kids, Yellow, House

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.

  Dan Savage

  Christian, Crazy, Teenager

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

  Ben Affleck

  Home, Thinking, People

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2012.

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• By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Axes, Korea

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• Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.

  James Inhofe

  Israel, Effort, Nuclear

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