Best Iran Quotes

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

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?

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

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?

I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.

We’ve never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it’s interesting that Obama picked the day of implementing of Iran deal to impose new sanctions on North Korea.

Iran’s military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as ‘the president who lost Iran,’

As long as I’m president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.

If the Sunni and Shia, or those nations that surround Saudi Arabia and those nations that gather around Tehran or Iran fight each other, that is the trigger that will bring about the War of Armageddon.

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

If Donald Trump shows signs of backing out of Europe, the Russians might be willing to stay out of his confrontation with Iran. If he follows Obama’s program in Europe, things might be different.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

May Allah bless Iran, bless the leadership of Iran, and bless our Muslim Umrah to throw off the yoke of neo-colonialism, and the divisions that Shaitan is exploiting, causing us to fight and kill one another.

I am warning my people, but I’m also warning Iran, and warning Saudi Arabia, and warning China and Russia and Europe. We are at the end of this world.

You look at the Middle East, you started the Iran deal, that’s another beauty where you have a country that was ready to fall, I mean, they were doing so badly. They were choking on the sanctions. And now they’re going to be actually probably a major power at some point pretty soon, the way they’re going.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

?t the end of the day, unless Iran and Russia want to have a rump Allawite state and a rump Sunni state, and a Kurdish state, then they’re going to have to come to the table and bring about an end to this regime.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

We can’t say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted – but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn’t ask me about something, I wasn’t about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

As long as Iran’s aggressive policies continue, it’s going to be bad for the region. Iran has to decide whether it wants a revolution or a nation-state.