American hegemony Quote by Trita Parsi

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

It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize…

— John Boehner

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support…

— Leon Panetta

There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle…

— Condoleezza Rice

We are in perilous territory the stronger Iran gets. And they're getting stronger. We should make them weaker.

— Ron Johnson

Up until now, I believed the nuclear threat to the U.S. from Iran was limited to the ability of terrorists to penetrate the borders…

— Joseph Farah

In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance…

— Elliott Abrams

The Iranians have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy, even though they have significant oil revenues. So I am convinced that…

— John McCain

The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards' missiles. We have other capabilities as…

— John C. Stennis

Iran is a powerful country. Iran is a big country with a large population, natural resources, human resources. But we are a country that…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play…

— Barack Obama

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and…

— Condoleezza Rice