Top Iran Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Iran quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ben Affleck
I want to thank my wife who I don't normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It's good. It is work, but it's the best kind of work, and there's no one I'd rather work with!
- Ben Affleck
Collection: Iran
Image of John Bolton
The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.
- John Bolton
Collection: Iran
Image of Marjane Satrapi
I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.
- Marjane Satrapi
Collection: Iran
Image of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Collection: Iran
Image of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Collection: Iran
Image of Oliver North
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
- Oliver North
Collection: Iran
Image of Robert Mugabe
The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq.
- Robert Mugabe
Collection: Iran
Image of Leonard Peikoff
Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.
- Leonard Peikoff
Collection: Iran
Image of Akbar Ganji
We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
- Akbar Ganji
Collection: Iran
Image of Akbar Ganji
I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
- Akbar Ganji
Collection: Iran
Image of Akbar Ganji
Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market. It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
- Akbar Ganji
Collection: Iran
Image of Akbar Ganji
The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
- Akbar Ganji
Collection: Iran
Image of Li Zhaoxing
Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.
- Li Zhaoxing
Collection: Iran
Image of Ruhollah Khomeini
After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.
- Ruhollah Khomeini
Collection: Iran
Image of Zalmay Khalilzad
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.
- Zalmay Khalilzad
Collection: Iran
Image of Zalmay Khalilzad
We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.
- Zalmay Khalilzad
Collection: Iran
Image of Irene Khan
As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.
- Irene Khan
Collection: Iran
Image of Mohammad Khatami
Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.
- Mohammad Khatami
Collection: Iran
Image of Ali Larijani
If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.
- Ali Larijani
Collection: Iran
Image of Ali Larijani
The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.
- Ali Larijani
Collection: Iran
Image of Ali Larijani
Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
- Ali Larijani
Collection: Iran
Image of Ali Larijani
Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.
- Ali Larijani
Collection: Iran
Image of Daniel Fried
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.
- Daniel Fried
Collection: Iran
Image of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Collection: Iran
Image of Bahman Ghobadi
Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
- Bahman Ghobadi
Collection: Iran
Image of John Barrasso
A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.
- John Barrasso
Collection: Iran
Image of Robert Fisk
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.
- Robert Fisk
Collection: Iran
Image of Gholam Reza Aghazadeh
Now that Iran has entered into production of nuclear fuel on an industrial, there will be no limit on the production of nuclear fuel in Iran.
- Gholam Reza Aghazadeh
Collection: Iran
Image of Jay Rockefeller
Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.
- Jay Rockefeller
Collection: Iran
Image of Yukiya Amano
The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
- Yukiya Amano
Collection: Iran
Image of Fawn Hall
I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
- Fawn Hall
Collection: Iran
Image of Shirin Ebadi
I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.
- Shirin Ebadi
Collection: Iran
Image of Shappi Khorsandi
There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.
- Shappi Khorsandi
Collection: Iran
Image of Thomas E. Donilon
Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.
- Thomas E. Donilon
Collection: Iran
Image of Anthony Eden
If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.
- Anthony Eden
Collection: Iran
Image of Mohammad Javad Zarif
You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.
- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Collection: Iran
Image of Mohammad Javad Zarif
We're [Iran] not dismantling anything. We are uninstalling some centrifuges and reconstructing the Arak reactor, modernizing it. . . . The remaining activities that we need undertake will not take more than several days, less than two weeks.
- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Collection: Iran
Image of Mohammad Javad Zarif
This visa-waiver thing is absurd. Has anybody in the West been targeted by any Iranian national, anybody of Iranian origin, or anyone travelling to Iran? Whereas many people have been targeted by the nationals of your allies, people visiting your allies, and people transiting the territory of, again, your allies. So you're looking at the wrong address.
- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Collection: Iran
Image of Farah Diba
There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
- Farah Diba
Collection: Iran
Image of Hooman Majd
If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.
- Hooman Majd
Collection: Iran
Image of Hooman Majd
There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.
- Hooman Majd
Collection: Iran
Image of Hooman Majd
The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision.
- Hooman Majd
Collection: Iran
Image of Hooman Majd
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
- Hooman Majd
Collection: Iran
Image of Joseph Cirincione
Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.
- Joseph Cirincione
Collection: Iran
Image of Joseph Cirincione
So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.
- Joseph Cirincione
Collection: Iran
Image of David Krieger
[Donald] Trump has said that he would do away with the Iran Deal negotiated by the U.S. and five of its allies with Iran, and yet he recently backed away from vowing to scrap the Iran Deal for now.
- David Krieger
Collection: Iran
Image of Hamid-Reza Assefi
Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.
- Hamid-Reza Assefi
Collection: Iran
Image of Andre Vltchek
The majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the world. Could you imagine what the Arab people would do if true democracy (rule of the people) were to be victorious?
- Andre Vltchek
Collection: Iran
Image of Evan Osnos
Donald Trump has the ability to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal as he says, but if he were to do so, this would be regarded in Tehran as an abrogation of the deal. This would allow the Iranian side of the deal to in effect withdraw because they could say that the United States has not held up its end of the bargain, and therefore we're going to restart our nuclear program.
- Evan Osnos
Collection: Iran
Image of Amir Taheri
Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.
- Amir Taheri
Collection: Iran