Iran Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.

  Barack Obama

  War, Blood, Iraq

  "Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee joins Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. July 21, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Thinking, Issues, Islam

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility of U.S. aggression against Iran and the Iranian hostages being held by the U.S. in Iraq.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Iraq, Students, Possibility

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Break Out, World

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen.

  Barack Obama

  Relief, Nuclear, Frozen

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.

  Barack Obama

  War, Issues, Progress

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've met with some of their families. I've seen their anguish, how they ache for their sons and husbands. I gave these families my word. I made a vow that we would do everything in our power to win the release of their loved ones, and we have been tireless.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Home, Son

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Even as we implement the nuclear deal and welcome our Americans home, we recognize that there remain about differences between the United States and Iran. We remain steadfast in opposing Iran's destabilizing behavior elsewhere, including its against Israel and our Gulf partners and its support for violent proxies in places like Syria and Yemen.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Israel, Differences

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Battle, Together, Saudi Arabia

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.

  Roger Ailes

  Fashion, Two, Media

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

  Chris Christie

  Nuclear, Next, Clinton

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Republican convention speech, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• Let me be clear: America and the world are measurably less safe and less respected because of the Iran deal Hillary Clinton helped cut.

  Chris Christie

  Cutting, America, Safe

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Egypt, Islam, Afghanistan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You look at the Middle East, you started the Iran deal, that's another beauty where you have a country that was ready to fall, I mean, they were doing so badly. They were choking on the sanctions. And now they're going to be actually probably a major power at some point pretty soon, the way they're going.

  Lester Holt

  Country, Fall, Mean

  Source: time.com

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• Look at what's happening, how Iran is taunting us. Look at what's going on, look at the world.

  Donald Trump

  Looks, World, Taunting

  Source: time.com

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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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• What is it between Obama and Iran? That's the question we all ought to have. Because it sure seems to me like Obama's got some sort of affection for that nation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Affection, Ought, Seems

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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