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Kill one person and it’s murder; kill a million and that’s foreign policy.

The continuing conflict between the US and China complicates matters, because we ought to work together on climate change and on developing a vaccine against Covid-19.

The only way for America to remain a democracy is to forgo its foreign policy. Either its world strategy must become inward-looking or its political structure must become more centralized.

It would be helpful if the US would finally acknowledge its contributions to destabilization and regime change in the region. Doing so can help us change US foreign policy, trade policy, climate policy, & carceral border policy to address causes of mass displacement & migration.

Imperialism is still alive and well. You don’t have a military force of the size that the US this very moment has in the middle of the Arab world & call it ‘self-inflicted violence,’ it is imported from the outside.

As a reminder: everything that our partners – let us call them that – the United States has been doing in previous years, supposedly ensuring its interests and security thousands of kilometers away from their national territory – they have been doing these tough things, the boldest things, without UN Security Council authorization.

Treat us with at least a modicum of respect. We do not threaten you or your allies, why do you refuse us the security you insist for yourself?

Weapons are being used to kill Palestinians with American weapons. And American funds are essentially being used to do this… Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel.

To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West — especially Russia and Europe — into a cooperative international system.

NATO is, first and foremost, a tool of U.S. foreign policy.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries

We protested when the Israeli Defense Forces killed more than 2,000 Palestinians in 50 days. Yet Obama replied with words about the difficult plight of police officers … and the additional $225m in financial support of the Israeli army. Obama said not a mumbling word about the dead Palestinian children but he did call Baltimore black youth ‘criminals and thugs’.

There are many who loudly insist that diplomacy cannot succeed without a robust U.S. military presence to stand as leverage. We gave that argument a decade. It’s never proved effective…Our diplomacy does not hinge on having boots in harm’s way.

We’re constantly voicing our concerns about this, talking about red lines, but we understand our partners — how shall I put it mildly — have a very superficial attitude to all our warnings and talk of red lines.

Big nations can’t bluff.

At this point, we can expect anything on earth from the United States. In a bid to assert their hegemony, they have passed all bounds of diplomatic, ethical, or any other kind of decency.

Trump recklessly tossed away a policy that was working to keep America safe and replaced it with one that has worsened the threat.

America will remain a great power for many years, but just how influential it will depend on its ability to fix its internal problems, rather than its foreign policy.

We have announced time and again that the atomic bomb has no place in our foreign policy doctrine and [religious] beliefs…. The [International Atomic Energy] Agency has also announced many times that Iran does not seek the nuclear weapon

How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engaged in activities that he engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country.

American unreliability is simply destabilizing to Iran, making it prefer a stable albeit bad economy over the uncertainty of uncommitted American sanctions relief.

Avoiding a war with Russia that could go nuclear, however, has always been a vital strategic interest, especially since Moscow acquired nuclear weapons. Every American president has known that. And avoidance of war with the United States has been a guiding principle of Russian foreign policy from Stalin to Putin.

Israel has no foreign policy, only a domestic policy.

Russia conducts peace-loving foreign policy, but we have a right to provide for our own safety.

DC is supposedly hyper-polarized. But on Russia Democrats and Republicans largely agree. They largely agree on China. Some differences on the Iran deal but almost no one wants broader rapprochement with Tehran. On foreign policy, this isn’t an era of elite polarization but elite consensus.

Once again, people in the foreign policy establishment want us barreling towards another reckless war instead of working on diplomacy and finding a peaceful solution.

We may soon see the post of the EU chief diplomat abolished because the EU has virtually no foreign policy of its own and acts entirely in solidarity with the approaches imposed by the United States.

The Iran Deal gave Iran billions of Dollars, international legitimacy. Returning to the deal is a mistake that will once again give legitimacy to one of the violent darkest regimes in the world. Israel will not let Iran get nuclear weapons, will maintain total freedom of action.

There’s going to be a tilt eastward, and to the Global South. Iran will improve relations with China and Russia, also because of US pressure and sanctions.

Iran’s foreign policy decisions are pretty clear. Iran will be putting less emphasis on Western nations, especially European, and more emphasis on the Global South, the East, neighboring countries – and of course that will include China and Russia.

Partially due to their naive and optimistic approach towards the US and its allies, and partially due to the painful results of their liberal economic reforms, for most Iranians, Rouhani and his Reformist allies gradually became deeply unpopular.

How many more generations of American daughters and sons would you have me send to fight in Afghanistan’s civil war…I will not repeat the mistakes we’ve made in the past.

I extend a hand of friendship and brotherhood to all countries in the region, especially neighbors, and I warmly shake their hands.

The Islamic Republic of Iran … in accordance with international law … has put unwavering support for the liberation fight and resistance of the Palestinian people aimed at the full realization of their human rights among the planks of its foreign policy.