Iran Quotes - Page 28

• As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Sanctions, Late

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Independence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

  David Ignatius

  Believe, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons ­nor should anybody else. But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British and secondarily the French had dominated it, but after the Second World War, it's been a U.S. preserve. That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.

  David Ignatius

  Fighting, Iraq, Arms

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

  David Ignatius

  Thinking, Allies, Hezbollah

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would think the place would be better off if Iran had nuclear weapons. The main enemies are the United States and Isreal, in the 80, 90 percent range.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Enemy, Supportive

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

  Elliott Abrams

  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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• There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

  Cynthia McKinney

  People, Ironic, United States

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• Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Isis, America, Battle

  Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the US Congress, time.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated, at least if it's minimally democratic. It would continue to improve relations with Iran, just what the United States doesn't want to see. And beyond that, right across the border in Saudi Arabia where most of Saudi oil is, there happens to be a large Shi'ite population, probably a majority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Independent, Oil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which happens to be an Arab area, not Persian. Khuzestan is Arab, has been loyal to Iran, fought with Iran not Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. This is a potential source of dissension. I would be amazed if there isn't an attempt going on to stir up secessionist elements in Khuzestan.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over Iran's nuclear program. While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Islamic, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or specialists on Hezbollah. But it's the party line. Or sometimes you can put in Syria, i.e. "Syrian-supported Hezbollah," but since Syria is of less interest now you have to emphasize Iranian support.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Ideas, Support

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy to be given authorization to go back into Iran instead of leaving all that to their rivals. But the state won't allow it. And it is setting up confrontations right now, very explicitly. Part of the reason is strategic, geo-political, economic, but part of the reason is the mafia complex. They have to be punished for disobeying us.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Political, Leaving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  Alexander Haig

  Paris, Giving, News

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• The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Defiance, States

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, Years, Degrees

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• There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

  Judy Woodruff

  Country, United States, Process

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

  Jane Harman

  Love Is, Israel, Care

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Priorities, President

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• [Donald] Trump has said that he would do away with the Iran Deal negotiated by the U.S. and five of its allies with Iran, and yet he recently backed away from vowing to scrap the Iran Deal for now.

  David Krieger

  Allies, Trump, Said

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Donald Trump has the ability to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal as he says, but if he were to do so, this would be regarded in Tehran as an abrogation of the deal. This would allow the Iranian side of the deal to in effect withdraw because they could say that the United States has not held up its end of the bargain, and therefore we're going to restart our nuclear program.

  Evan Osnos

  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Loss, Thinking, Europe

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• The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet and believe it with all their hearts. And yet, at the moment, Iraq doesn't trust Iran worth a damn, and Iran trusts Iraq even less than that. In fact, Iran is convinced that Iraq is in the pay of the Great Satan (that's God-fearing America, in case you've forgotten) and Iraq counters with the accusation that it is Iran who is in the pay of the Great Satan. Neither side is accusing the Godless Soviets of anything, which is a puzzle

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Heart, Iraq

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