Iranian Quotes - Page 4

• It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.

  John Boehner

  Peace, Strong, Freedom

  "Obama administration claims Iran deal a ‘forever agreement,’ despite expiration dates". www.foxnews.com. April 06, 2015.

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• To honor the people that died, we need to stop the Iran agreement, for sure, because the Iranian mullahs have their blood on their hands, and we need to take out ISIS with every tool at our disposal.

  Jeb Bush

  Iran, Isis, Agreement

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Europe, Oil, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel.

  Shirin Ebadi

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• Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.

  Matt Sanchez

  Baby, President, Killers

  "Free Speech For All?" by Alicia Colon, The New York Sun, September 28, 2007.

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• The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program than Podhoretz or Ledeen. They don't have access to any specific information. So for them to dismiss it has no great value because they have no authority whatsoever on this issue. For them to push forward with their efforts to get a war started between the U.S. and Iran, you certainly cannot say that Iran does not have a nuclear program. If you say that, then the justification for war has basically been eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  War, Intelligence Services, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There seems to be a consistency, in that people who have had access to the Iranian program - people who actually have had boots on the ground and have been able to investigate and inspect the program - have consistently been saying these things.

  Trita Parsi

  People, Consistency, Boots

  "Trita Parsi: The NIE’s Got Nothing on Him". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2007.

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• I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.

  Maurice Motamed

  Technology, People, Peaceful

  "Morris Motamed: The Iranian People Has the Right to Nuclear Technology". January 2006.

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• I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

  Michael Steger

  Growing Up, Generations, Culture

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• Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the issue of gender to construct an image of oppression or to describe the 'silenced' Iranian woman, western intellectuals, policymakers, and publishing houses are all quick to introduce them as presenters of the authentic Iranian experience.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Issues, Publishing House, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Russia has a long-term interest in Syria. Israel by and large does not have an issue with those long-term interests that Russia has in Syria. Israel has an issue with an Iranian regime that is trying to establish this land bridge, and that openly calls and actively works for Israel's destruction. And if you ask a hundred Israelis what they want to see in Syria, you're going to get 150 answers.

  Ron Dermer

  Trying, Destruction, Interest

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

  Inga Muscio

  Celebration, Oppression, Gender

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Organization, Long

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Issues, Nuclear, China

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• In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Past, Order, Data

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• I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.

  Claude Mandil

  Oil, Risk, Embargo

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• The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.

  Erich Honecker

  Names, Chapters, Khomeini

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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, Iran, Turkeys

  "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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• 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, Iran, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're over there, is not just my experience. If you went to Iran today or an Iranian came to America today, or the fact that there are bombs exploding everywhere, there's just a tremendous sense of fear and feeling a desire for security.

  Shirin Neshat

  America, Iran, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, People, Enjoy

  President Ahmadinejad Delivers Remarks at Columbia University, www.washingtonpost.com. September 24, 2007.

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• It's very difficult to make predictions about the Iranian politics, but given the fact that Ahmadinejad was elected with a very clear purpose - to improve the economy - and he's failed.

  Gary Sick

  Purpose, Economy, Difficult

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• New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.

  Joshua Landis

  Country, Grief, Architecture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me as an Iranian girl, then I cannot play an Iranian girl. If you aren't perceived as a full black girl, then it makes it more difficult to play a black girl on TV.

  Yara Shahidi

  Girl, People, Black

  Source: www.glamour.com

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