“What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.” ShouldSaidStatesUsePoliticalBecomingAvailableNuclearIranCapabilityVehicleDiplomaticConcur Author:Mitt Romney
“Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.” SaidStatesAmericaPresidentLinesUnitedUnited StatesAchieveBottomNuclearPrioritiesIranPresident ObamaUnited States Of AmericaBottom LineTop Priorities Author:Mitt Romney
“I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.” BelieveStatesI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesIraqIranCooperation Author:David Ignatius
“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.” IfsThinkingWorldStatesWould BeStrongUnitedUnited StatesMiddlePolicyKingsWeakSickFundamentalsWideOilEastSignificantFamiliarIranMiddle EastUnlikelyConsensusSaudisArab WorldYemenSignificant ChangeBahrainKing Abdullah Author:Elliott Abrams
“There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.” PeopleStatesWould BeUnitedUnited StatesTerrorismFamiliarIranIronicConferencesSponsorsTehranAnti Terrorism Author:Cynthia McKinney
“There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.” CountryStatesProcessUnitedUnited StatesIranOther CountriesEmbassy Author:Judy Woodruff
“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.” GivingStatesWould BeBeliefUnitedUnited StatesNewsPressesInternationalImprovementDisasterFranceParisIranComplaintsNaiveConferencesExtremistCampingTakeoversDaily NewsKhomeini Author:Alexander Haig
“So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.” StatesDifficultUnitedUnited StatesIssuesMaterialsWeaponsEvidenceNuclearSignificantIranResolveQuantityNuclear Weapons Author:Joseph Cirincione
“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.” PeopleWayHumansEndsStatesDoneReligiousUnitedRolesUnited StatesStreetsDignityThirdsDefeatPeacefulIdeologyProtestIranAlsDictatorshipSyriaEgyptReligious FaithAl QaedaHuman DignityLibyaPeaceful ProtestTunisia Author:Reza Aslan
“Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.” StillsCountryStatesSeemsHappensLeaderRevolutionPreparedDebateWarriorAppealsIslamicIranThinkerFundamentalismEmulateMajesticIslamic StateKhomeini Author:Ruhollah Khomeini
“I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions on us, without waging a war. How would we survive under those circumstances?” WarStatesCircumstancesIndependentIndependenceIraqIranSyriaTurkeysSanctionsKurdsKurdish Author:Jalal Talabani
“If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.” IfsStatesEnoughUnitedUnited StatesMadOilIranBarrelsVenezuela Author:Hugo Chavez
“Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.” ShouldStatesResponsibleTerrorIranSponsors Author:Condoleezza Rice
“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.” ShouldSaidStatesAmericaClearIsraelUglyLondonBunchRegionsIranPhenomenonPalestinianStanceOutcastThugMoscowTumors Author:Ali Khamenei
“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.” TryingStatesRememberUnitedCompanyUnited StatesResponseWesternBritishOilIranContinuationOil CompaniesAppeasement Author:Leonard Peikoff