Iran Quotes - Page 35

• The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.

  Ali Larijani

  Problem, Proposal, Program

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• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Effort, Nuclear, Exhausted

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• Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

  John Oliver

  Baby, Children, Crazy

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• Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.

  Hooman Majd

  Attitude, Media, Voice

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• I hope that things will change, because it's a pity that a country like Iran is not where it should be, or where it has been historically. It's important for Iran, for all of the Middle East, and also for the rest of the world.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Important, Middle East

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

  John Barrasso

  Believe, School, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Doctors, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Party, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Knowing, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Past, Developing Countries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, People

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas, they don't have a great impetus. But again, the revenue that natural resources produce gives them the capability and so countries like Iran are beginning to develop an industrial component.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Oil, Giving

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I`m determined that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

  Joe Manchin

  Nuclear, Weapons, Determined

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Israel

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• Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

  William Hague

  Rights, Leader, Political

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• [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Islamic, Mean, Thinking

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• Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Numbers

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.128, Soft Skull Press

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• Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Real, Lying

  "Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music" by Evan Rytlewski, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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• There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Nice, Government, Population Problem

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• We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Iraq, Years

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.globalresearch.ca. March 2, 2007.

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• When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.

  Robert Fisk

  Coffee, Italian, Europe

  Robert Fisk (2001). “Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

  John McCain

  Song, Beach, Boys

  "McCain and Palin In Their Own Words: 25 Laughable Quotes" by Daniel Kurtzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2008.

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• Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.

  Robert Fisk

  Trying, Nuclear, Target

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• Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

  Joschka Fischer

  War, Turkeys, Financial

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• That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Commitment, Love Is, Israel

  "Pelosi: Netanyahu speech 'insulting to the intelligence of the United States'" by Lauren French, www.politico.com. March 3, 2015.

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