Quotes and Sayings About Iran
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
-- Abdallah II -
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Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.
-- Alexander Haig -
Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.
-- Alexander Haig -
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 BabacanSource : "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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But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.
-- Ali Khamenei -
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In order to threaten Iran, you [America] say that you can secure the energy flow in the region. You are wrong. Beware that if you make the slightest mistake over Iran, the energy flow through this region will be seriously endangered. You will never be capable of providing energy security in this region. You are not capable and you should know this.
-- Ali Khamenei -
It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.
-- Ali KhameneiSource : "The Iranian Regime on Israel's Right to Exist". www.theatlantic.com. March 09, 2015.
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Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region... No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.
-- Ali KhameneiSource : "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.
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If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.
-- Ali Larijani -
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Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.
-- Ali Larijani -
Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]
-- Ali Larijani -
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 -
Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
-- Ali LarijaniSource : "Iran nuclear crisis sent to security council" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.
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Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.
-- Allyson SchwartzSource : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.99, Bantam
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Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.
-- Anders Fogh RasmussenSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.
-- Anders Fogh RasmussenSource : "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
-- Andrew Young -
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
-- Andy Rooney -
Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such lengths to fund anti-Communist forces. When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the President's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-Communist freedom fighters sold out by the Democrats.
-- Ann Coulter -
If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.
-- Anthony Eden -
Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.
-- Ariel Sharon -
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We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.
-- Ariel Sharon