Browsing Topic Best Iran Quotes

We, Iranians, are not just surviving, but we are stronger and more determined, more than ever, to decide our own destiny.

The so-called Iran threat could be dealt with by establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East. Everyone is in favor of that, including Iran. The U.S. blocks it because they would have to open up Israeli nuclear weapons to inspection.

The heart of elections is competition. If you take that away it becomes a corpse.

The most dangerous scenario [for America] would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an ‘antihegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by complimentary grievances.

The interference of foreigners in the region is a source of discord and damage. All issues and incidents must be resolved without foreign interference and the countries of the region should follow the example of Iran and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic for power and rationality.

The best way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a verifiable, tough agreement. A military solution will not fix it. It would temporarily slow down an Iranian nuclear program but it will not eliminate it.

War is a hostile, harsh matter and the Islamic Republic [of Iran] never favors seeing ordinary people afflicted by wars. However, in the issue of Ukraine, had Russia not initiated taking action, the other side would have started a war…NATO is a dangerous entity.

Do we maintain respect for the rule of law or do we return to the law of the jungle by surrendering to the whims of an outlaw bully?

The improvement of ties with Japan is of great importance for Iran … Any delay in unblocking Iranian assets in Japanese banks is not justified.

The world doesn’t care about ‘America First’ or ‘America is Back’.

Ultimately, a negotiated solution is needed. Iran may believe it needs more leverage, but just as the US has grave difficulties giving up its [economic] sanctions—as if they are a goal in and of themselves—Iran may find itself in the same trap if it builds a [nuclear] bomb.

This visit, which I am making at the invitation of Vladimir Putin, could be a turning point in Iran’s political, economic, and trade relations with Russia.

Shaking the hand of a murderer [Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud] is bad, but going to war with Iran is insanity.

A tyrant stays in power by isolating his people from the rest of the world. In the case of Iran, four decades of sanctions, containment and global isolation imposed by world powers have done the tyrant’s work for him.

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

One day they may name a street after President Trump in Tehran. Why? Because Trump just ordered the assassination of possibly the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Middle East.

It makes no sense in a global health crisis to compound failure with cruelty by inhibiting access to needed humanitarian assistance…our sanctions are limiting Iran’s access to needed equipment. The Trump Administration should take immediate steps to address this problem.

At its core, the Abraham Accords reboot the unsuccessful U.S. strategy of organizing the Middle East around isolating Iran, dividing the region between America and its partners on one hand, and Iran and its allies on the other.

We have been confronting the US for more than 40 years.

Iran is on the cusp of a nuclear bomb.

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

I point you to Jared Kushner’s own document, which explicitly states that any reduction in tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a threat to the durability of the Abraham Accords. […] in order for Israel and Saudi Arabia and the UAE to continue to have enough strategic incentives to collaborate and have relations and all jointly forget about Palestinian suffering, there needs to be a threat from Iran.

Wouldn’t it be rational for Iran – geographically encircled, politically isolated, feeling threatened – to want its own arsenal of nukes, for defensive and deterrent purposes?

In every house there are two people working, one outside and one inside, and how says the work done by housewives is less than the man doing outside. Why shouldn’t housewives get a salary too.

The peace, security, and independence of our neighbors are the peace, security, and independence of us. America is not our neighbor. It is the Islamic Republic of Iran that neighbors you, and we have been long taught that the neighbor comes first, then the house.

The assassination of Martyr General Soleimani, the great General of Peace, by the United States on the Iraqi soil, was one of the most obvious instances of terrorism.

In other words, President Biden was and is criticizing the behavior of his predecessor, Mr. Trump vis-à-vis Iran, but at the same time, the volume of the file of sanctions that Mr. Trump built against Iran is being carried carefully by Mr. Biden.

In the nuclear agreement, Iran is the only country that remained committed until the very end and we will revive this approach if there is reciprocation from the other sides.

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

The US is like a mafia boss. It illegally threatens other countries – even allies – if they don’t do as they’re told. The US must recognize that it will pay a price for its rogue behavior.

Amidst the confusion and uncertainty of a world without American protection, two models are emerging. One is represented by the fledgling Iraqi effort to promote inclusive regional diplomacy. The other is manifested in the Abraham Accords, with its emphasis on facilitating the reconciliation between Arab dictatorships and Israel in order to counter Iran’s influence.

We do not negotiate with the Americans on regional issues, different domestic issues, and international issues. Today, the only matter for negotiation is the nuclear matter. This will become an experience for us. If the other side stops its usual obstinacy, this will be an experience for us and we will find out that we can negotiate with it on other matters as well. But if we see that they continue to behave in the same obstinate and deviant way, well, our previous experience will naturally be strengthened.

In a nuclearized Middle East, Iran will find that its natural conventional superiority—due to its population, size, and resources—has been eliminated due to the cascading effect of its own decision to nuclearize.

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.

Putin is not only threatening Ukraine…but now he is threatening to go into Cuba and Venezuela, that’s a lack of respect, and we never had that problem, did we? There was no problem with Putin and Ukraine. There was no problem with President Xi in Taiwan. China, Russia, and Iran are engaging in aggression and provocations; they never would have dared do just one year ago. They would never have done any of this. They’re toying with us.