Iran Quotes · Page 24

Saudi Arabia is a crucial ally in the Middle East, supporting U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and halt the ambitions of a…

— Will Hurd

Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its…

— Barack Obama

Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited…

— Conan O'Brien

I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

— Barack Obama

When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in…

— Matt Gonzalez

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment…

— William Hague

I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an…

— Shirin Ebadi

“A message was sent by the regime to the faithful: to survive they would have to be loyal to only one interpretation…

— Azar Nafisi

The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation,…

— Reza Aslan

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days…

— Scott Walker

Israelis cannot enter Iran, so Israel, Iranian officials believe, has devoted huge resources to recruiting Iranians who leave the country on business…

— Ronen Bergman

The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents…

— Barton Gellman

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making…

— Earl Blumenauer

While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in…

— Barack Obama

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution.…

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The JCPOA has made the world safer. The deal ensures that Israel does not have to live with the threat of a…

— Jan Schakowsky

There is an obvious truth here that must be spoken. The truth is that Assad, Russia, and Iran have no interest in…

— Nikki Haley

Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a 'Washington Post' journalist whose work aimed to…

— Nazanin Boniadi

President Trump has always said that he does not want war, that he seeks peace with Iran, peace in the Middle East.

— Morgan Ortagus

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

— Rand Paul

t I think what [James Mattis] will do with the deal is monitor it very, very carefully and make sure that Iran…

— Peter R. Mansoor

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of…

— Ehud Olmert

We should refuse to settle for a deal that fails to secure the release of American hostages and paves Iran's path toward…

— Thom Tillis

It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.

— Jalal Talabani

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

— Jane Harman

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

— John Kennedy

Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

— Hossein Malek-Afzali

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

— Moshe Katsav

As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the…

— Joschka Fischer

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't…

— Barack Obama

President-elect Biden is committed to the proposition that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon.

— Antony Blinken

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a…

— Bill Walton

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

— Steve Scalise

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

— Howard Berman

My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against…

— Anonymous

[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

— Marco Rubio