Iran Quotes

In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. [...] In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this. (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
[Iran, Libya and Syria] are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons [of] mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve. View quote
Ariel Sharon
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town. View quote
Luke Harding
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. View quote
Christiane Amanpour
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan. View quote
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran. View quote
Moshe Katsav
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land. View quote
Moshe Katsav
Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals. View quote
Moshe Katsav
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
As you know, there are al-Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq. (John McCain)
... the Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
O Cyrus, great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy. View quote
Muhammad 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. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
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. View quote
Anthony Eden
Our relations with Iran have witnessed grave crises because of the policies of successive regimes in Iran which have considered Iraq and the Arab homeland, particularly the Arab Gulf area, as a sphere for domination and influence. View quote
Saddam Hussein
We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by various means under successive regimes in Iran) is the decisive battle for the Arabs. What we have said, and still say, is that the fight against Zionism is the main decisive battle for the Arabs. This is a great objective reality, which cannot be denied or underestimated except by someone who would not only harm the Arab nation and its main causes, but would also overlook the main danger. (Saddam Hussein)
Now that Iran has entered into production of nuclear fuel on an industrial [scale], there will be no limit on the production of nuclear fuel in Iran. View quote
Gholam-Reza Aghazadeh
I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for my opinion and that of the Iranian Jewish community, and I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. The Iranian people must not give up this right under any circumstances - and indeed, it will not. View quote
Maurice Motamed
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran. View quote
Madeleine Albright
The next possessors of nuclear weapons may be Iran, North Korea, or possibly some terrorist bodies. Is there any hope that they will have absorbed the nearly universal inhibition against the use of nuclear weapons, or will at least be inhibited by the recognition that the taboo enjoys widespread acclaim? View quote
Thomas Schelling