Iranian Quotes - Page 9

• I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

  Hafez Nazeri

  Unity, Matter, Peace Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature.

  Shahrnush Parsipur

  Writing, Iran, Important

  Source: www.parsarts.com

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• 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 I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Hands, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.

  Clive Tyldesley

  Christian, Player, Names

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• I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."

  Farah Diba

  Art, Should Have, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.

  Ali Khamenei

  Exercise, Government, Leader

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims there are no homosexuals in Iran, just like there are no gay conservatives in the US.

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Iran, President

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• In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Ideas, People, Islam

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 5 (p. 468), January 15, 1979.

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• Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, Iran

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

  Conrad Black

  Israel, Self, Issues

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• Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Iran, Years

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• Akbar Ganji was in prison for six years, and that was it...for six years, and it was finished. Of course the Iranian government could make up some stories and accuse him of some other things, but the international support didn't let the government do that.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Support, Prison

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• Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

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• The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  Salman Rushdie

  Government, West, Revolution

  "Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Achievement, Energy, Nuclear

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• Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

  James Buchan

  New York, Inspiration, Islamic

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Iran, Guarantees

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• The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

  Steven Pinker

  Iran, Iraq, Lesson Learned

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• Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

  Azar Nafisi

  Past, Rights, Regimes

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• I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

  Doris Lessing

  Hate, Government, Iran

  "September 11 wasn't that bad, says Nobel winner Lessing" by Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Israel, Nuclear

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• The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Love, Peace, Government

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• The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gay, Firsts, Theocracy

  "Stephen Hawking Endorses Iranian and Chinese Repression" by Alan Dershowitz, www.algemeiner.com. May 10, 2013.

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• One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

  James Buchan

  Country, Police, Historical

  "Khomeini's Ghost" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

  Salman Rushdie

  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

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