Iranian Quotes - Page 9

• The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

  Barack Obama

  People, Challenges, Economy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Russia, Olympics, Saws

  "Smoke Signals from The Swamp: Meet General Michael Flynn" by Dook Snyder, theberkshireedge.com. October 30, 2017.

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• I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Battle, World

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• If Trump takes an aggressive anti-Iranian stand, I suspect it will complicate his relations with Russia; how much so, depends on what else Trump does, particularly about participation in NATO.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Russia, Doe, Trump

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Michael Flynn, national security adviser, [his reaction] to the Iranian missile test the other day was very frightening. Now the missile test is ill-advised, they shouldn't have done it. But it's not in violation of international law or international agreements. They shouldn't have done it. His reaction suggested maybe we're going to go to war in retaliation.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Agreement, Law

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is Iranian-supported Hezbollah. It gets Iranian support. But you can mention Israel without saying US-supported Israel. So this is more tacit propaganda.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Media, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

  Noam Chomsky

  Zero, War, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Support

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• the IAEA illegally insisted on politicizing the Iranian nation's nuclear case, but today, because of the resistance of the Iranian nation, the issue is back to the agency. And I officially announced that, in our opinion, the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed and has turned into an ordinary agency matter.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Today, Opinion

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• Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

  Conrad Black

  Israel, Self, Issues

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• One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

  James Buchan

  Country, Police, Historical

  "Khomeini's Ghost" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Israel, Nuclear

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• I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

  Doris Lessing

  Hate, Government, Iran

  "September 11 wasn't that bad, says Nobel winner Lessing" by Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

  Azar Nafisi

  Past, Rights, Regimes

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• The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  Salman Rushdie

  Government, West, Revolution

  "Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

  Salman Rushdie

  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

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• There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Cinema, Use, Metaphor

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• As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

  Ben Stein

  Beverly Hills, Becoming, Conservative

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• Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

  Shirin Neshat

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

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• Iran’s President openly talks about wiping Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear program is a threat, not just to my country, but to the entire region. And it’s incumbent upon us all to do what needs to be done to keep from proliferating.

  Mark Regev

  Country, Israel, Iran

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• This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the presidential palace. On Thursday, they forced the president to resign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Government, Tuesday, Presidential

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• A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Party, Organization

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 75, 1991.

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• Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, Peaceful

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Book, Israel

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Blow, Iran

  Source: time.com

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