Iranian Quotes - Page 4

• 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'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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• Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they've lived through one international humiliation after another, one after another. We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint.

  Donald Trump

  Citizens, Knees, Sailor

  "Donald Trump Becomes Republican Presidential Nominee; Ivanka Trump Makes the Case for Her Father". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hands, Two

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Strong, Lying, Believe

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

  Erich Honecker

  Names, Chapters, Khomeini

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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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• 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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• China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Issues, Nuclear, China

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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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• 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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• 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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• It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!

  Mahbod Seraji

  Government, Might, Circumstances

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.268, Penguin

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• The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

  Ali Khamenei

  People, Rehabilitation, Saws

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• We cannot tell anything about what [Donald Trump] is going to do, but if, let's say if he is going to fight the terrorists, of course we are going to be ally, natural ally in that regard with the Russian, with the Iranian, with many other countries who wanted to defeat the terrorists.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Fighting, Allies

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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

  Shirin Ebadi

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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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