Quotes About Iran

Leveraging the global finance system against Iran and other rogue nations that sponsor terrorism is a position I'm happy to take.

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

It is in our interest to crush ISIS, terrorist groups like the al-Nusra front and Ahrar ash-Sham, and Iran's puppet Assad.

As a result of the billions of dollars flowing into Iran after the JCPOA, the Iranian regime is able to increase its support to terrorist group groups like Hezbollah.

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

My priority is to repeal the Iran Nuclear Deal and vote to do that. I think it's extremely dangerous... you don't negotiate with terrorists.

Congress must continue its support for U.S. aid to Israel, and Congress must confront terrorists and their backers like Iran.

The Iranian people are known for adhering to their undertakings. We have been tested by history. We're an old civilization. We've been tested by history. We haven't aggressed upon any country for 250 years. This is a history that I'm proud of.

At the "World Without Zionism" conference held in Tehran in October 2005, the assembled delegates chanted "death to Israel, death to America, death to England," while the host, Ahmadinejad, predicted to the cheers of the assembled that, "with the help of the Almighty, we shall soon experience a world without America and Zionism, notwithstanding those who doubt.

There are a few much older states in existence, particularly ancient empires and their successor states such as China or Iran.

When our revolution became very severe with killing in street and hostage in Emrika embassy, it made afraid all Emrika. Even it made afraid many Iranian...Emrika did think: Iran became cray! But really Iranian was same people, only difference, we have some fanatic with power. Everyone else same.

In Canada, Coca-Cola, Turtle Man explains as he fills my glass. In Iran, Pipi Zam Zam.

Authors Note: This is a sketchbook, a collection of my impressions of Iran and its people. For the most part, I have painted situations as they occurred, present voices as precisely as possible. At times, I have made collages of stories and faces, as often to protect the identities of people as to lend artistry to a scene. As is the case with many portraits, their truth is not in their detail, but their spirit.

The Sumerians, living five thousand years ago in what is now Iran, are commonly believed to be the world's first civilization.

There are two critically important prophecies about the future of Iran in the last days. The first is found in Jeremiah 49:35-39.

Elam is one of the ancient names of Iran, just like Persia. The passage tells us that in the last days, God will scatter the people of Iran all over the earth. For many centuries, this seemed impossible because we Persians are such a proud and nationalistic people. But as incredible as it was, this prophecy actually began to come to pass in 1979.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

Four months before the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran in February 1979, the Catholic Church dealt with the "malaise" by elevating a 58-year-old Pole by the name of Karol Wojtyla to the chair of Peter. According to Wojtyla, the "malaise" of 1979 derived from "the dehumanizing tendencies of modern culture — a threat he saw as much in the rampant modernizing capitalism of the West as in the atheistic materialism of the East.

This was also the year in which the Ayatollah Khomeini died, and the year in which his successor approved birth control. The results of that change have proven disastrous for Iran, which has seen its birth rate go from 3.4 in the period immediately following the revolution to 1.7, which is to say below replacement level, which is where it stands today. If this demographic collapse continues, Iran will cease to exist as a nation after 2,500 years of history.

Analogies with the past are never properly accurate and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading, but in pure chronology I sometimes wonder if we're not in the 1920s or 1930s again... This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.

As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

When I think of the things that Trump has done, ironically, everything is sort of - we care so much about Cuba and the Iran deal. I think pulling out of TPP is just devastating.