“I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us.” TryingBelieveI BelieveStepsSupportBehaviorTerrorismAggressionReignIranianBad Behavior Author:Hillary Clinton
“Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.” I CanShowsIranShow MeSaudisIranianDiplomats Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“The role of Iran has been very destructive. As an Iranian, I apologize to the civilian people of Syria who have been killed as a result of the useless intervention of Iran in Syria.” PeopleHas BeensResultsRolesUselessDestructiveIranSyriaApologizingInterventionCiviliansIranianI Apologize Author:Shirin Ebadi
“They [Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz] will never give peace a chance because they are saying the moment they are elected, the first thing they will do is to rip up the agreement that allowed $150 billion of Iranian money to be returned to them. They don't want this agreement and that will surely lead to war.” WantGivingFirstsWarMomentsChanceBillionsAgreementRipIranianCruzMarcos Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.” KindWholeGovernmentFilmInterestingCinemaVery InterestingIranian Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't; it's just not very important to them.” ImportantGovernmentFilmIssuesIranianImportant Issues Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“My trainer taught me, because he's Iranian, and that's a beautiful snack [pistachios]. I have some with me, actually, in my bag. You could eat that on a plane instead of the salted nuts. And a serving size a day is the size of your hand, not the size of your head!” HandsBeautifulTaughtSizePlanesBagsServingNutsTrainersIranianSnacksPistachios Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Russia and the United States are the biggest nuclear powers, this leaves us with an extra special responsibility. By the way, we manage to deal with it and work together in certain fields, particularly in resolving the issue of the Iranian nuclear programme. We worked together and we achieved positive results on the whole.” WayStatesWholeTogetherCertainUnitedResultsDealsResponsibilityUnited StatesIssuesSpecialFieldsNuclearRussiaManageExtrasWorking TogetherIranianProgrammesNuclear PowerPositive Results Author:Vladimir Putin
“In 2009, US President [Barack] Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with Iran that bans Tehran from developing a potential military nuclear project.” SaidPresidentMilitaryProjectsInternationalProtectionDefenseNuclearBarackDevelopingIranMissilesBansTreatiesIranianPresident Barack ObamaUs PresidentTehranNuclear MissilesMissile Defense Author:Vladimir Putin
“We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.” WellsCountryWould BeLevelsKnownPositionUnfairWell KnownSanctionsIranian Author:Vladimir Putin
“Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great achievements of Iranian scientists. I too will not suspend uranium enrichment. However, I will attempt to avoid unnecessary tensions. We have a right to enrich uranium.” NationsUnitedPolicyAchievementScientistNuclearTensionAbandonUnnecessaryUnited NationsTransparentFacilityIranianGreat AchievementEnrichmentInspectorsUranium Author:Mir-Hossein Mousavi
“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.” IfsKnowsSaidWarWaterSawsTrumpJudgmentBlowShipsIranSailorIranianTauntingGood Judgment Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald [Trump] never tells you what he would do. Would he have started a war? Would he have bombed Iran? If he's going to criticize a deal that has been very successful in giving us access to Iranian facilities that we never had before, then he should tell us what his alternative would be.” IfsGivingShouldHas BeensWarWould BeDealsSuccessfulTrumpAccessAlternativesIranCriticizeFacilityIranian Author:Hillary Clinton
“Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.” KnowsWorldMeanStatesKnow HowSkillsWeaponsBuiltCapacityProgramClintonNuclearAround The WorldRegimesNuclear WeaponsSecretaryAlliancesSanctionsIranian Author:Tim Kaine
“[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot.” WorldNationsWeaponsShotsToughProgramClintonNuclearAround The WorldNuclear WeaponsNegotiationIranianFiring Author:Tim Kaine
“I think wherever we can cooperate with Russia, that's fine. And I did as secretary of state. That's how we got a treaty reducing nuclear weapons. It's how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid on the Iranian nuclear program without firing a single shot.” ThinkingStatesFineWeaponsShotsProgramNuclearRussiaIranNuclear WeaponsSecretaryReducingSanctionsTreatiesIranianFiring Author:Hillary Clinton
“Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.” ThreeMassMassiveSquaresDemonstrationProvincesIranianUprisingAzerbaijan Author:Akbar Ganji
“There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.” ClearTheoryRevolutionDemandExpectationsVarietyRisingSatisfyingRegimesIncapableExplosionsIranian Author:Akbar Ganji
“All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.” KnowsIdeasStatesIndividualAcceptingSupportExpressionConsciousIncludingAffairAtheistPopulationWideToleranceMannersDomainFreedom Of ThoughtFreedom Of ExpressionIranianPublic DomainHeist Society Author:Akbar Ganji
“I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLastsLinesSpaceOne ThingDangerSixPrisonWestJournalistIranIranian Author:Akbar Ganji
“Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market. It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.” PeopleHappensBlackClearMaterialsWorriedIranIranianChernobyl Author:Akbar Ganji
“What I'm worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.” PeopleCountryHappensPayCasesWesternNuclearWorriedExplosionsIranian Author:Akbar Ganji
“Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?Of course, everyone knows that I'm also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.” IfsKnowsShouldSaidIdeasStatesCoursesUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesDecidedRegimesRulersIranian Author:Akbar Ganji
“The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.” PeopleChallengesEconomySanctionsIranian Author:Barack Obama
“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.” InterestDealsSawsRelationNuclearRussiaOlympicsIranianSochi Author:Michael T. Flynn
“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.” ThinkingWorldDealsMiddleBattleChaosEastWorriedLiftsMiddle EastSanctionsIranianPersianShia Author:Michael Bloomberg
“If Donald Trump dismantles the agreement [the "Iran nuclear deal"] won by President Barack Obama with President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian government and people: If he dismantles that, and puts greater sanctions on Iran, then we are leading to another war; another war inspired by Israel, another war that will bring China into war, Russia into war, Europe into war. And the Western world, in this war, will be taken completely down, and a whole new world is on the horizon.” PeopleIfsWorldWarWholeGovernmentPresidentDealsTakenGreaterTrumpEuropeDown AndWesternInspiredIsraelChinaNuclearRussiaBarackAgreementIranHorizonNew WorldSanctionsIranianPresident Barack ObamaWestern WorldHassan Author:Louis Farrakhan
“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.” IfsCountryWantedFightingCoursesNaturalTrumpRegardDefeatTerroristAlliesOther CountriesIranian Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are the world's largest central banker for terrorism, if they thought it was in their interest to give a terrorist group a nuclear weapon to use against America or against Israel, I don't think they'd hesitate.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingYearsUseGovernmentAmericaInterestGroupsArmsAuthorityWeaponsYears AgoIsraelTerrorismNuclearTerroristNuclear WeaponsPalestinianBankersIranianTerrorist Groups Author:John Bolton
“What we want for the Iranian people is control over their own government, which they don't have now. So you would do it through supplying resources and support from the outside to the indigenous people who are already quite unhappy. The mullahs have made hash of the economy since 1979, there's a huge amount of economic dissatisfaction. The young people, who are pretty well educated and sophisticated, know they could have a better life than this strict Islamic law.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsMadeGovernmentLawYoungSupportEconomyEconomicHugeAmountResourcesUnhappyEducatedIslamicSophisticatedStrictBetter LifeIndigenousDissatisfactionIranianIndigenous PeopleWell EducatedHashIslamic LawMullahs Author:John Bolton
“The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.” PainAmericaAbilityHalfTakenMiddleSecurityDependsSittingIraqIsraelOilAccessVulnerableIranTargetAfghanistanTroopsSevereEasternIranianRetaliationSecurity MeasuresTroops In IraqSevere Pain Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“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.” IfsDoeDependsTrumpRelationRussiaSuspectsAggressiveParticipationIranianNato Author:Lawrence Davidson
“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.” WarDoneLawSecurityTestsInternationalIllReactionsAgreementFrighteningNational SecurityViolationMissilesIranianAdviserInternational LawRetaliation Author:Noam Chomsky
“Donald Trump has the ability to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal as he says, but if he were to do so, this would be regarded in Tehran as an abrogation of the deal. This would allow the Iranian side of the deal to in effect withdraw because they could say that the United States has not held up its end of the bargain, and therefore we're going to restart our nuclear program.” IfsEndsStatesWould BeSidesAbilityUnitedDealsUnited StatesEffectsTrumpProgramNuclearIranBargainsIranianTehran Author:Evan Osnos
“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.” ThinkingWorldShouldWarEnergyIssuesMiddlePolicyWeaponsResourcesShould HaveBritishEastNuclearPreservesWar Of The WorldsIranForeign PolicyMiddle EastWorld War INuclear WeaponsKoreaNorth KoreaSecond World WarIranianAxiomsCenter Of The World Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” NamesSupportMediaIsraelPropagandaIranianHezbollahTacit Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” IdeasSometimesInterestLinesPartyActingSupportAcceptedAgentsIranSyriaIranianSpecialistsDubiousHezbollah Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” PeopleShouldLittlesWarStatesFactsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesIssuesRightsSouthEnvironmentalTreatedCivil RightsAwfulFormerRememberedOppositionThis DayZeroVietnamAggressionWomens RightsHomosexualityScholarshipVietnam WarIranianRejectingUnheardEnvironmental Issues Author:Noam Chomsky
“I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.” NeedsDifferentCountryStatesDoneFightingTalkingInfluenceMiddlePressureChinaEastGladRussiaIranMiddle EastSyriaKoreaNorth KoreaUkraineIranianDifferent Countries Author:Nikki Haley
“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.” IfsWorldFeelsIdeasFactsFeelingsTodayAmericaDesireSecurityLike YouSafeBombsIranIranianExplodingAmerica Today Author:Shirin Neshat
“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.” PeopleGirlDifficultBlackProducersPerceiveIranianDelayedBlack Girl Author:Yara Shahidi
“I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it all, the Iranian identity has survived. People are very courageous, especially the women, who are braver than the men.” PeopleMenLongCountryIdentityHe ManCourageousIranian Author:Farah Diba
“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.” ThinkingWarSupportIranian Author:Tony Benn
“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.” TodayOpinionIranian Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“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.” PeopleCountryEnjoyHomosexualIranianTrue Freedom Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“President Ahmadinejad is not the most powerful individual. At the same time, he is reflecting Iranian views right now, so it's difficult to neglect him.And in the context of domestic U.S. politics, it's very difficult to ignore him.” IndividualDifficultPresidentPowerfulMost PowerfulNeglectIranian Author:Karim Sadjadpour
“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.” PurposeDifficultEconomyIranian Author:Gary Sick
“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.” CountryGriefInfluenceSecurityArchitectureSyriaIranian Author:Joshua Landis
“It was Hillary Clinton who worked with Russia on the New START Treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. It was Hillary Clinton that worked with Russia to get them engaged in a community of nations to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons without firing a shot. She's not going around praising Vladimir Putin as a great guy. But she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals. This is a very challenging part of the world, and we ought to have a commander-in-chief who is prepared and done it, rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader.” WorldDoneGuyCommunityChallengesLeaderToughPraiseClintonNuclear WeaponsGreat LeaderIranianNew StartGreat Guy Author:Tim Kaine
“The Iranians have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy, even though they have significant oil revenues. So I am convinced that together, we can, with the French, with the British, with the Germans and other countries, democracies around the world, we can affect Iranian behavior. But have no doubt, but have no doubt that the Iranians continue on the path to the acquisition of a nuclear weapon. And it is a threat not only in this region but around the world.” WorldCountryTogetherEconomyDemocracyPathDoubtBehaviorThreatSignificantNuclear WeaponsIranian Author:John McCain