Tehran Quotes - Page 2

• Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Children, Air, Breathing

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• The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Spring, Winning, Turkeys

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• If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

  Henry Rollins

  Ifs

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• It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Fate, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

  Azar Nafisi

  Struggle, Teaching, Revolution

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Issues, Community

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• And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.

  Otto Schily

  Men, Iraq, Iran

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Air, Breathing, Cities

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for risk? And my tolerance for risk for WMD proliferation is pretty close to zero. Because otherwise, we and our allies are at the mercy of regimes like Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran, or Kim Jong Il and the Hitler-in-the-bunker mentality in Pyongyang, or others who don't share our calculus on the value of human life.

  John Bolton

  Zero, Real, Issues

  Source: humanevents.com

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• I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.

  Richard A. Falk

  Hands, Iran, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Iran, People, Pakistan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Book, Cinema, Saws

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• The president of the United States is supposed to lead the free world and not follow it. Other nations have been more outspoken. So, I hope that we'll hear more of this because young men and women taking to the streets in Tehran need our support. The signs are in English. They're basically asking for us to speak up on their behalf.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Support, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Compassion, Voice

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

  Chris Terrio

  Media, Iran, Play

  "Yahoo! Original: ‘Argo’ writer Chris Terrio talks Ben Affleck, blue Wookies and ‘Breaking Bad’". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013.

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• There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Iran, People, Ironic

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• We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Axes, Iran, Nuclear

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• The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

  John Bolton

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Change, Brother, Years

  "Marco Rubio calls Obama’s Cuba deal 'absurd,' says will 'make every effort' to block it" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat - from Gaza to Tehran.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Commitment, Israel

  Obama's speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), www.npr.org. June 4, 2008.

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• 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

  Iran, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Bye, America

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• In 2009, US President [Barack] Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with Iran that bans Tehran from developing a potential military nuclear project.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, Iran, President

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!

  David Edelstein

  Real, Actors, Done

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

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