Iranian Quotes
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Iranian Quotes & Sayings
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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
Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.
— Clive Tyldesley
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
— Michael Steger
My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
— Ottessa Moshfegh
The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.
— Condoleezza Rice
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
— Nouriel Roubini
So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'
— John McCain
Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Less frightening, but no less disgusting, is the Iranian taste for jam made out of carrots.
— Paul Theroux
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
— Marjane Satrapi
Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.
— Charles B. Rangel
I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Said after 'Vincennes' shot down an Iranian Airliner.
— George H. W. Bush
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.
— Shohreh Aghdashloo
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
— Asghar Farhadi
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
— Hillary Clinton
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
— Bahman Ghobadi
We are convinced that the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations.
— Sergei Lavrov
We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.
— Andrea Tantaros
China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.
— Li Zhaoxing
In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.
— Robert McFarlane
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
Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.
— Adel Al-Jubeir
There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said.
"Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it. — Sebastian Rotella
"Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it. — Sebastian Rotella
An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.
— Moshe Katsav
The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.
— Moshe Katsav
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.
— Shirin Neshat
The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
— Noam Chomsky
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
He [Mosaddegh] was part of a generation of Iranian men who were inspired by Europe but who expected their wives to remain Iranian. (p37)
— Christopher De Bellaigue
Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Hezbollah is not a mammoth force, there is only so much they can do in Syria. Iranian role more critical for the regime.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The Iranian revolution of 1906 gave Zoroastrians a seat in the country's parliament.
— Gerard Russell
IPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
— Evgeny Morozov
'The rise of christianity as the result of impact of iranian religion on judaism', I don't think is entirely false.
— Bernard Lewis
At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian people.
— Hassan Rouhani
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.
— Russ Carnahan
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
— Said Sayrafiezadeh
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
— Salman Rushdie
We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
— Said Sayrafiezadeh
I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.
— Claude Mandil
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.
— Laura Fitzgerald
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
— Shirin Ebadi
I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.
— Marjane Satrapi
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.
— Shirin Neshat
The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.
— Hassan Rouhani
I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.
— Maurice Motamed
In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.
— Stephen Kinzer
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.
— Robert M. Gates
Iranian belief in themselves as a civilization rather than a territorially limited nation.
— Ali Ansari