Iran Quotes - Page 25

• Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it`s one thing to do that - it`s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Trying, President, Giants

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that it was - Benjamin Netanyahu almost couldn`t help the Iran deal, but John Boehner sort of walked him into it as well.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Helping, Deals

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

  Hassan Blasim

  War, School, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we Americans have made it so easy for them.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Years, Iraq

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• America is so outplayed by Putin and Assad, and by the way - and by Iran. Nobody can believe how stupid our leadership is.

  Donald Trump

  Stupid, Believe, America

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• The fact that the American government has formally set aside an enormous yearly budget of nearly $75 million to increase cultural exchanges in order to bring about what it calls "regime change" has muddied the waters and complicated American Studies in Iran more than anything else.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Government, Order, Water

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Together, Embodiment, Topics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U.S. archives.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Opposites, America, Archives

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.

  Mohammad Marandi

  War, Years, Laughing

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• 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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• But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.

  Alice Schwarzer

  War, Men, Islam

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Аt the end of the day, unless Iran and Russia want to have a rump Allawite state and a rump Sunni state, and a Kurdish state, then they're going to have to come to the table and bring about an end to this regime.

  Adam Schiff

  Russia, The End Of The Day, Tables

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Muslim women that I have met are super-powerful and amazing and smart and they are, they're not allowing themselves to be held back by the laws that exist. And you know, the Internet exists now, and mobile phones are freeing up stuff. I have a really good friend who's from Iran and a really good friend who's from Kuwait, and they talk about getting music on the black market and how that's such an intense, amazing experience. And how they value the music so much more, because it's such a risk to own it.

  Larkin Grimm

  Powerful, Smart, Good Friend

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their social justice movement in their country. And a good Iranian friend of mine showed me how also in Iran, till the government shut it down, much was communicated via social media. So I'm not against. I use the internet regularly to do research. It's great but you have to use your discernment, especially if researching content.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Country, Government, Media

  Interview with Greg Gerke, therumpus.net. December 05, 2011.

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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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• For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Differences, America

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

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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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• 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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• There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.

  Akbar Ganji

  Possibility, Demonstration, Defiance

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• We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.

  Akbar Ganji

  Unique, Two, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.

  Akbar Ganji

  Oil, Today, Revolution

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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