Iran Quotes - Page 30

• Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Brother, Confused, Iraq

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• We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Believe, Issues

  "Cleric: US threats, fruits of insanity". Press TV, October 2007.

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• It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.

  Richard Schiff

  War, America, Korea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Thinking, Israel

  "Obama Compares Iran Deal To A House Under Contract, Awaiting Appraisal". "The Two-Way" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 7, 2015.

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• Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Leaving, Enemy

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• Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.

  Haile Selassie

  Long, Events, Empires

  "Revolutionary Ethiopia : From Empire to People's Republi" by Edmond J. Keller, Indiana University Press, (p. 67), 1991.

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• I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.

  Jay Leno

  Rights, Brown, Blake

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• The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Art, Patriotic, Exercise

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• I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Years, Europe, Twenties

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 65, 1991.

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• Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Yugoslavia, Groups

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, pp. 146-147, 1980.

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• Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia.

  David Petraeus

  Iraq, Training, Special

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, David Howell Petraeus, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (2008). “The status of the war and political developments in Iraq: joint hearing before the Committee on Armed Services meeting jointly with Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held, September 10, 2007”, Government Printing Office

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• The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Past, America, Rights

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 535, 1991.

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• Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

  Ali Khamenei

  Thug, Israel, America

  "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.

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• Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Attitude, Believe, America

  "Farrakhan Champions Iran's Nuclear Program". "Al Jazeera", archive.frontpagemag.com. March 23, 2007.

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• Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Powerful, Iraq, Difficult Situations

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• Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Responsible, States, Sponsors

  "Condoleezza Rice Holds News Conference on Iran". Condoleezza Rice's remarks on Iran, www.washingtonpost.com. May 31, 2006.

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• Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Overcoming, Birth

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• I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Mistake, Believe, Men

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 167, 1980.

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• As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Long, Being Free, Needs

  "Cartoonist Alizadeh, translating world into humor". Press TV, April 23, 2009.

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• I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for my opinion and that of the Iranian Jewish community, and I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. The Iranian people must not give up this right under any circumstances - and indeed, it will not.

  Maurice Motamed

  Giving Up, Technology, Issues

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• The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.

  Barack Obama

  Nature, Thinking, Israel

  "Obama admits Iran nuclear deal only delays inevitable, leaves problem for future presidents", www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2015.

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• We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Community, Nuclear

  Statement by the President on the Framework to Prevent Iran from Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 2, 2015.

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• President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

  Conan O'Brien

  Israel, Filled Out, Two

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• The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.

  Bernard Lewis

  Philosophy, War, Mad

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• Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Technology, Nuclear, Weapons

  "Diplomatic License", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2004.

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