I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
More of ‘The Bourne Identity’s script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum’s novel.
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word ‘home’ has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it’s that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.
I wouldn’t even know – and I spent three years in the CIA – I wouldn’t even know how you’d start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.
Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.
I feel pretty safe in saying that most Americans can’t tell you off the top of their head who the Kurds are or what the U.S. relationship with them is – let alone how that factors into Iran, Russia, China, Turkey and Syria.
Our ultimate goal is that Iran never have a nuclear bomb.
Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.
I fear Iran continuing to be able to pursue uranium enrichment and to maintain several thousand centrifuges.
I would like to promote internal change in Iran – which is more likely if we don’t fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.
I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards’ missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic.
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
I grew up in Northern California – Marin County, Tiburon. And it’s interesting. It’s a very rich place, but a lot of the affluent people are – they’re not as showy. So, like, they might have, like, a Saab or a Volvo. And then here comes my dad from Iran. He buys a Rolls-Royce.
The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.
I don’t believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.
During my years in the Navy and in the White House, I was involved in assessing how a war with Iran would go. In summary: It would be ugly.
I have never been affected by terror, but here in Iran, I have never felt any ill will toward me – the opposite, actually.
The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.
Bad actors like Russia, Iran, and China have demonstrated time and time again they have both the capabilities and the intent to use the cyber domain as an operating space to wreak havoc.
As a state sponsor of global terrorism and supplier of weapons to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons capabilities.
What the United States wanted in Guatemala – and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s – was pro-American stability.
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It’s a cruel and evil government.
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.
In Iran, education is not a given at all. For decades, in fact, the Iranian government has been systematically depriving members of the Baha’i faith their right to higher education, attempting to bar their advancement and marginalize them in Iranian society.
The nuclear deal with Iran is fundamentally flawed.
What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?
Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race – Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran’s regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.
But so far, you know who’s been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel’s destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
Iran is not a nation-state; it’s a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.
The best example of Obama’s success in foreign policy is Iran.
Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.
We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I’ve not seen since 1992.
After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.
There’s no reason we can’t all live harmoniously together, and that’s what I would say to the head of Iran.
President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn’t really matter what he thinks.
The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.
Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.
I don’t know about others, but I want to work in India, America, Iran, Europe, and Russia – everywhere. I am a sucker for good script; I’ll go wherever it’ll take me.
Ending Iran’s nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn’t have any problem with them. They started it.
One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.
Iran’s continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran’s leaders.
To represent Iran in the Olympics feel great.
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.
Anyone who’s gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, ‘Woo-hoo! I’m going to travel.’ And I opened it up. It said, ‘Born in Iran.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, come on, man!’
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?
I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.
Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company – which would later become BP – and its principal owner, the British government, conspired to destroy democracy and install a western-controlled regime in Iran.
A war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region, and it will reflect very strongly on the rest of the world. For sure, we will not allow any such thing.
I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
