Iranians Quotations

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.

We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have been coming to the United States as students for decades. American businessmen were in Iran developing the oil fields. ...There was an American financial advisor to the Iranian government in the early part of the century.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

I'd be surprised if oil ticks much lower. Stocks are good, but you only have to have Iran start to threaten the loss of barrels. I expect the Iranians to take this to the wire.

I'd be surprised if oil ticks much lower, stocks are good but you only have to have Iran start to threaten the loss of barrels. I expect the Iranians to take this to the wire.

BBC Persian.com is a major source of news for Iranians, and has the biggest impact of any online site or newspaper in Persian. We are very concerned at this action and regret that it deprives a great number of ordinary Iranians of a trusted source of impartial and editorially independent news and information.

Basically, the Iranians are saying, 'This is not enough,' ... we need to make sure the process continues ... as long as the parties are talking, we're on the right track.

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

If the approach we took with the North Koreans gave the impression to the Iranians that the European proposal is unworkable because of a lack of American support, that could be a problem,

People are clearly feeling somewhat frustrated that the Iranians have been given lots of opportunities they don't seem to want to take advantage of.

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

I think the Iranians are willing to live with ... a possible referral to the Security Council.

We know the history of Hussein, and we know he is a bad actor, ... We know he's had weapons of mass destruction and used them against Iranians and used them against the Kurds in his own country, and he would use them against anybody else, too.

We hope the Iranians will return to the table ... but one thing that is very clear is the Security Council is an option,

We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.

We have looked at the letter very carefully. The Iranians are under an obligation to respond positively to the resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency ... and we look to them to do that,

We are just waiting on the inventory report now. Yesterday's big move wasn't justified. The Iranians are always talking about cutting output and supporting prices.

The fact that the Iranians are successful time after time in getting away from international pressure ... encourages them to continue their nuclear project. I believe that the political means that are used by the Europeans and the U.S. to convince the Iranians to stop the project will not succeed.

We are working with a wide range of countries, not just the EU-3, but all the members of the IAEA and a lot of other countries around the world, to try to create an environment where the Iranians hear one message,

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted.

Currently Iran has no enrichment capacity - there is no possible way Iranians can enrich uranium.

Currently Iran has no enrichment capacity there is no possible way Iranians can enrich uranium.

Yes, there is still time for diplomacy but it's up to the Iranians to seize the opportunity," ()

The Russians . . . want to do what we all want to do, which is they want to pursue a diplomatic path and see if the Iranians will come along.

We repeated our positions and the Iranians repeated theirs.

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media.

Our expectations are low that the Iranians will accept.

The revolution belongs to all Iranians and nobody has the right to seize it in his own name or tendency.

The United States ought to have the upper hand on these nuclear proliferation questions and yet it seems that the North Koreans, the Iranians and even our friends the Indians are able to dictate terms to us without fear of consequence.

This is a paranoid regime. Even if the development of the Caucasus airfields à even if it weren't about them, they would assume it was about them. So that in and of itself will likely provoke a response. The Iranians are not inert targets! If they started to think we were moving in the direction of a military move against them, they would start fighting us right away.

That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved in the past, and also to use their very considerable influence with Hezbollah to ensure that this continued use of Hezbollah technology stops in Iraq,

The big issue for the Russians will be how much the Iranians demand technical access to the processes.

The Kurdish minority ... has been cozying up to the Iranians ... and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel,

Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy.

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in my mind when I work. There are few people who do not agree with me, but truly, I don't care. I call myself an actress with a mission.

A policy of simultaneously getting our allies to negotiate with the Iranians for major Iranian concessions while we at the same time condemn them internationally and allocate funds to destabilize them politically is not a policy that will be successful.

A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so.

The foreign minister of China believed after his visit to Tehran that the Iranians are serious about they are planning to move this development or those efforts only in order to develop, let's say, nuclear energy, ... We know the truth. I think most of the world knows the truth.

The Iranian nation is united on one thing. Iranians don't tolerate humiliation and threats.

The Iranians are going ahead with their nuclear program and saying the heck with what the rest of the world thinks. They didn't say anything about cutting supplies but the market is still nervous.

The Iranians are taking this right down to the wire.

The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.

The Iranians don't follow logical rules. Things are done for domestic consumption.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

The Iranians have said 'We want a weapon' and it's not in the world's interests that they have a weapon.

The Iranians shouldn't be underestimated. If they were to cut supply in protest, there's really not enough capacity to absorb the loss of their exports.

The Iranians told us that if people really needed to cross they could cross. They asked us to help out and we said we would.

The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on an anti-Western agenda.

The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap in the face for the Europeans.

It is time to bring home to the Iranians that supporting a nuclear weapons program has consequences.

It's a self-evident truth that if we're able to get a broad consensus with Russia and China, it strengthens the international community's hand with the Iranians on this dossier,

We are very concerned at this action and regret that it deprives a great number of ordinary Iranians of a trusted source of impartial and editorially independent news and information.

It's a difficult targeting package. You can set them back, but ... much of what we can destroy, the Iranians can reconstitute domestically.

They reached that point without army occupancy and it is important that they accomplished it themselves because the Iranians can say they did something great and did it on their own to future generations. It gives the country dignity.

I don't think there's much chance of getting to the worst case. It would damage the Iranians as much as anyone else.

And day by day were the Iranians weakened, for they were smitten with great slaughter, and the number of their dead was past the counting.