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Image of Peter R. Mansoor
General [James] Mattis has said that the deal's in place. We can't unilaterally pull out of it without support from our allies because the sanctions wouldn't bite as deeply. And so he'll find other ways to push back against Iran in the various conflicts that Iran is fomenting around the [Iran] region.
- Peter R. Mansoor
Collection: Iran
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Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.
- Peter R. Mansoor
Collection: Iran
Image of Trita Parsi
Unfortunately, every time the United States has tried to pursue a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians by beating back Iran and trying to isolate Iran, it has failed. And it has failed under much better circumstances.
- Trita Parsi
Collection: Iran
Image of Adel al-Jubeir
Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia. We have no issue with seeking to develop the best terms we can with Iran.
- Adel al-Jubeir
Collection: Iran
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We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.
- Adel al-Jubeir
Collection: Iran
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Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.
- Adel al-Jubeir
Collection: Iran
Image of Mohammad Marandi
In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U.S. archives.
- Mohammad Marandi
Collection: Iran
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The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility of U.S. aggression against Iran and the Iranian hostages being held by the U.S. in Iraq.
- Mohammad Marandi
Collection: Iran
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One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.
- Mohammad Marandi
Collection: Iran
Image of Lawrence Davidson
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.
- Lawrence Davidson
Collection: Iran
Image of Jason Rezaian
I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.
- Jason Rezaian
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
Image of Azar Nafisi
Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
- Azar Nafisi
Collection: Iran
Image of Donald Trump
If you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They've been doing it. And it's not a pretty picture.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Iran
Image of Condoleezza Rice
When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.
- Condoleezza Rice
Collection: Iran
Image of Donald Trump
It's bad, bad experience. Whether it's the Iran deal that you're so in love with, where we gave them $150 billion back, whether it's the Iran deal, whether it's anything you can - name - you almost can't name a good deal. I agree.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Iran
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Iran is taking over Iraq.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Iran
Image of Brent Scowcroft
We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.
- Brent Scowcroft
Collection: Iran
Image of Marjane Satrapi
I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
- Marjane Satrapi
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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If Iran cheats, the world will know it.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
Image of Donald Trump
We gave [Iran] $1.7 billion in cash, which is unheard of, and we put the money up and we have really nothing to show for it.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Iran
Image of Mike Pence
Iran would do well to look at the calendar and realize there's a new president in the Oval Office. And Iran would do well not to test the resolve of this new president [Donald Trump].
- Mike Pence
Collection: Iran
Image of Condoleezza Rice
Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.
- Condoleezza Rice
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
Image of Mike Pence
Let's recognize that, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are fully subsidized by Iran.
- Mike Pence
Collection: Iran
Image of Shimon Peres
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.
- Shimon Peres
Collection: Iran
Image of Conan O'Brien
The Obama administration announced a deal with Iran that would prevent the Iranians from making a nuclear weapon. In exchange, we're giving the Iranians Netflix.
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to remain vigilant about it. We're not going to waver in the defense of our security or that of our allies and partners.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.
- John Bolton
Collection: Iran
Image of Vladimir Putin
A foreign threat is useful to put things in order in one's own camp, to make one's allies follow the bloc discipline. Iran does not fit this role too well, and it is very tempting to revive Russia's image of the enemy. But nobody in Europe is afraid anymore.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Iran
Image of Donald Trump
When they made that horrible deal with Iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to North Korea. And they should have done something with respect to Yemen and all these other places.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
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Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
Image of Shimon Peres
The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
- Shimon Peres
Collection: Iran
Image of Barack Obama
Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Iran
Image of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Collection: Iran
Image of Rand Paul
I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.
- Rand Paul
Collection: Iran
Image of Donald Trump
Certainly would never have made that horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran where they get $150 billion. They're a terrorist nation.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Iran
Image of Mitt Romney
What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Iran
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Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Iran