Iran Quotes - Page 9

• Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Men, Israel, Building Houses

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• The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Religious, Israel, Land

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• They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

  Gore Vidal

  New York, War, Lying

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• What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Country, Israel, Nuclear

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• Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Years, Iraq

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• At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Country, War, Dust

  "Iran Calls Oscar Win A Success Over Israel". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Independent, Law, Body

  "NPR Interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 24, 2009.

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• Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

  Yukiya Amano

  Country, Europe, Perspective

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• In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Order, Becoming

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• If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Office, Democracy

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• For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

  Azar Nafisi

  Struggle, Islamic, Years

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• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Islamic, Arabia, Facts

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, America, Presidential

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• When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

  Ali Babacan

  Country, Turkeys, Oil

  "Iran importing gold to evade economic sanctions, Turkish official says" by Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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• As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.

  Irene Khan

  Punishment, Usa, Arabia

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• If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

  Ron Paul

  War, Israel, Congress

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• I've said this before and I'm very proud of it, that when it comes to judgment, having run a hard race against Senator [Barack] Obama at the time, he turned to me to be secretary of State. And when it comes to the biggest counterterrorism issues that we faced in this administration, namely whether or not to go after bin Laden, I was at that table, I was exercising my judgment to advise the president on what to do, on that, on Iran, on Russia on China, on a whole raft of issues.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Exercise, Russia

  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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• Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Iraq, Effort, Southern

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Diplomats, Show Me, Shows

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I very strongly supported the agreement which makes certain that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.

  Bernie Sanders

  Agreement, Weapons, Doe

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• We do have the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that's an enforcement consequence, action for action, follow on. We have a plan, we will watch them, we will be vigilant.

  Hillary Clinton

  Agreement, Watches, Nuclear

  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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• What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform.

  Angus King

  Iphone, Russia, Law

  "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Pressure

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• Iran is biggest strategic beneficiary of invasion of Iraq.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Invasion, Beneficiaries

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