Active Quote by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“During our stay in Newport Beach, the Iranian Revolution took place and a group of Americans were taken hostage in the American embassy in…

— Firoozeh Dumas

Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is…

— Stephen Kinzer

We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians…

— Barack Obama

If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard…

— Mohammed Emami-Kashani

One of the things you learn in government is there's a long tail to American decision-making when it comes to foreign policy. Moving the…

— Ben Rhodes

Our support for the Shah, the CIA coup in 1953 - has become infused into the Iranian political discourse. The regime that came to…

— Kenneth M. Pollack

The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a…

— Bob Beckel

There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle the whole…

— Noam Chomsky

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would…

— Denis Healey

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate…

— Anthony Shadid

In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations…

— Cyrus Vance