Important quotes
[9/10/06 - 9/16/06]
United Press International reported that Ahmadinejad said :[9/03/06 - 8/09/06]
America and Britain "may have won World War II" but they will most assuredly "lose World War III" because "Iran will win the coming war and America will be beaten."
Amir Taheri, Asharq Alawsat reported that Ali-Akbar Meshkini, the second most powerful Ayatollah in Iran, Meshkini said[8/27/06 - 9/02/06]
"Among all the governments in the world, the only legitimate government endorsed by the Almighty is the Islamic Republic of Iran."
The Washington Post reported on a meeting in Tehran at the headquarters of Ansar al-Hezbollah where its speaker, Mehdi Koochakzadeh, said:[8/20/06 - 8/26/06]
"We have no such thing as majority rule in Islam ... If the majority says, 'We don't want an Islamic regime,' they have no right."
Xinhua reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Iranian people would "use force" to protect the country's disputed nuclear program as he inaugurated a heavy water plant. He aqdded:[8/13/06 - 8/19/06]
"There is no talk of nuclear weapons and there is no discussion of nuclear weapons, we are not a threat to anyone."
CNN News reported that Ahmadinejad told a huge crowd in Arbadil in northwestern Iran:[8/06/06 - 8/12/06]
"God's promises have come true," "On one side, it's corrupt powers of the criminal U.S. and Britain and the Zionists .... with modern bombs and planes. And on the other side is a group of pious youth relying on God."
CBS News reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with Mike Wallace in Tehran in a rare, exclusive interview. Ahmadinejad said that in response to President Bush's failure to answer his 18-page letter:[7/30/06 - 8/05/06]
"Those who refuse to accept an invitation will not have a good ending or fate."
FortWayne.com reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel.[7/23/06 - 7/29/06]
"Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented."
MEMRI:Following are excerpts from an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on July 23, 2006. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: In my opinion,[7/16/06 - 7/22/06]
"Lebanon is the scene of an historic test, which will determine the future of humanity."
The Jerusalem Post reported that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared:[7/09/06 - 7/15/06]
Israel had "pushed the button of its own destruction" by launching its military campaign against the Iranian-backed Hizbullah in Lebanon.
Iran Focus reported that just before the launch of the Hamas/Hezbollah offensive on Israel Ahmadinejad said that[7/02/06 - 7/08/06]
“the supporters of the Zionist regime must remove this regime before it is too late.”
JTA reported that Ahmadinejad said Israel is a[6/25/06 - 7/01/06]
"fabricated regime... I think the only solution would be for those who created it to wrap it up and take it away."
Rooz Online reported that Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, the spiritual mentor of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hopes for 10% support from the Iranian people:[6/18/06 - 6/24/06]
"One cannot expect everyone in a country of 70 million people to be deserving and righteous, but 7 million believers can be raised from amongst them." Mesbah Yazdi himself spoke of the “forthcoming” Islamic government and described ways of forming it.
- Cox & Forkum published a cartoon: Forked Tongue.
- Alan Peters, AntiMullah.com found a cartoon video of the other World Cup games. Humor.
- MEMRI published excerpts from an interview with Iranian Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai who said: "America is like a paper tiger." A video.
Michael Davies reminded us of a fascinating quote by Ayatollah Khomeini regarding when to expect the fall of the Iranian regime. Ahmadinejad should be concerned by his words.[6/04/06 - 6/10/06]
"And, when the great Musleh (Reformer) appears do not think that a miracle will take place and the entire world will be put aright in a day! Rather, it is by hard work and sacrifices that the oppressors will be done away with. And if you think, as some misguided laymen do, that for the Mahdi (AS) to appear, the world must be entirely overwhelmed with cruelty and injustice therefore, to have him appear sooner, cruelty should be promoted, then let us all chime our own death knells. (From God we are and unto Him we return.)"
Breitbart.com reported that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said of the West, the:[5/28/06 - 6/03/06]
"international monopolists have been defeated."
Ha'aretz reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said:[5/21/06 - 5/27/06]
"there is no such country" as Israel.
Stratfor reported that Ahmadinejad not only rejected the European proposal -- he ridiculed it.[5/14/06 - 5/20/06]
"They say they want to offer us incentives. We tell them: Keep the incentives as a gift for yourself."
- Haaretz reported that former Military Intelligence chief Aharon Ze'evi claimed that Ahmadinejad has been overheard promising the
- "end of history in two or three years."
Khaleej Times Online reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said of Israel:[4/30/06 - 5/06/06]
“This regime one day will vanish.”
MEMRI published videos and translations of an interview with Iranian Army Chief of Joint Staff General Abdorrahim Musavi who said:[4/23/06 - 4/29/06]
"We make our submarines ourselves ... that will serve us in battle with the enemy... with America. ... America's military power is greatly overestimated."
Yahoo News reported that Iran's president said:[4/16/06 - 4/22/06]
"Those who want to prevent Iranians from obtaining their right should know that we do not give a damn to such resolutions."
CBS News reported that Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah of Iran said:[4/09/06 - 4/15/06]
"This regime is not trying to avoid confrontation, on the contrary; it needs confrontation in order to survive."
The Los Angeles Times reported that Ahmadinejad rebuffed a request from U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to suspend it suranium enrichment saying:[4/02/06 -4/08/06]
"Our answer to those who are angry about Iran achieving the full nuclear fuel cycle is just one phrase. We say: 'Be angry at us and die of this anger.' "
ReleaseGanji reported that Akbar Ganji reminded visiting students[3/26/06 -4/01/06]
"all the countries who have achieved such ideals as democracy, freedom etc. have also paid the price and this principle has no exception."
Haaretz reported that in a meeting with former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Anzar recounted:[3/19/06 -3/25/06]
"He received me politely," Aznar wrote, "and at the beginning of the meeting he explained to me why Iran must declare war on Israel and the United States until they are completely destroyed. I made only one request of him: that he tell me the time of the planned attack."
Iran Press News reported that a regime newspaper said:[3/12/06 -3/18/06]
"The new year will be a dangerous one for the Islamic regime."
The Hindu reported that the free and defiant Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji said:[3/05/06 -3/11/06]
"My views have not changed at all. Jail and pressures never forced me to change my views. Today, I'm more determined to say what I said six years ago."
Reuters reported that Iran's UN representatives said if the U.N. Security Council took up the issue of Tehran's nuclear research:[2/27/06 -3/04/06]
"The United States may have the power to cause harm and pain but it is also susceptible to harm and pain. So if the United States wishes to choose that path, let the ball roll."
United Press International added that Reza Pahlavi argued in his NPC speech that[2/20/06 -2/26/06]
"[Western diplomats] are operating under the false assumption that the other side [the Iranian regime] wants a solution."
Iran Press News reported that two Iranian dissidents, Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi and Asad Shaqaqi, fearing for their lives, said:[2/13/06 -2/19/06]
"Within the last 24 hours we have been told that we will kill ourselves either with knives or with cleaning liquid!"
The New York Times reported that Ahmadinejad in a speech to tens of thousands of demonstrators he said:[2/06/06 -2/12/06]
"I ask our dear people to prepare themselves for a great struggle." "Fasten your seat belts and pull up your sleeves."
- Yahoo News reported that Iran ended all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA but would still hold talks with Moscow. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki added:
- "Yesterday we had two options. One was the option of resistance and the other was surrender. We chose resistance."
Paul Hughes and Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad angrily rejected international pressure on Iran, saying:[1/23/06 -1/29/06]
"Those whose arms are stained up to the elbow with the blood of other nations are now accusing us of violating human rights and freedoms. God willing, we shall drag you to trial."
Iran Press News reported that Mohammed-Nabi Rudaki, deputy chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said:[1/16/06 -1/07/22]
"if our regime is referred to the security council, we have several options and one of those is to close off the Straits of Hormuz so that not one drop of oil can be exported."
Ilan Berman, National Review Online reminded us that Ahmadinejad's animus isn't simply directed toward Israel. Ahmadinejad has announced:[1/08/06 -1/07/15]
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny . . . a historic war between the oppressor [Christians] and the world of Islam."
Mehran Riazaty reported that Ahmadinejad said:[1/01/06 -1/07/06]
“We don’t shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world... We must prepare ourselves to rule the world.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Monsters and Critics reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:
'Zionism however is a Western ideology and an imperialistic idea created by the Britons which follows secular aims and fascist methods and currently killing Moslems with the help and direct lead of the United States and parts of Europe.'
[12/25/05 -12/31/05]
Reuters reported that Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, told a news conference that Iran was ready to discuss its programme and then added:[12/18-12/24]
"But that does not mean that we are waiting for any country's permission for the right of the Iranian nation and the Islamic Republic to enjoy nuclear technology."
Asia Times Online reported Rafsanjani said,[12/11-12/17]
"We see now that the United States has been defeated [in Iraq]."
Michael Scott Moore, Spiegel Online reported that while speaking before thousands in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, Ahmadinejad said, referring to Europeans:[12/04-12/10]
"Today, they have created a myth in the name of the Holocaust and consider it to be above God, religion and the prophets."
"This is our proposal: give a part of your own land in Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to (the Jews) so that the Jews can establish their country."
Paul Hughes, Reuters reported that Ahmadinejad a news conference he gave in the Saudia Arabian city of Mecca said:[11/27-12/03]
"Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces and they insist on it to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary to that they condemn that person and throw them in jail,...
If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe -- like in Germany, Austria or other countries -- to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it."
Compass Direct reported that Ahmadinejad recently vowed:[11/20-11/26]
“I will stop Christianity in this country.”
Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi[11/13-11/19]
Reported that Mullah Jannati, the Secretary General of the Guardian Council of the Islamic regime said:
“Non-Muslims are varmint that roam around the earth and spread corruption.
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting:President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday:[11/06-11/12]
"Tendency toward leading luxurious lives has not a place in this government and we would not permit imports of to 5 billion Rial (30 to 50 thousand US Dollar) bullet-proof cars, or permit some government officials to keep using such cars."
Hamidreza Assefi, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the regime reacting to a European Union statement said:[10/30-11/05]
"...we are amazed at the depth of the European Unions' ignorance toward the flow of the world. The Europeans need to first and foremost start by criticizing themselves...
Iran Focus reported that Iran’s top national security official and a senior aide to Supreme Leader, Larijani, said:[10/23-10/29]
"If the West wants to refer Iran’s nuclear file to the Security Council, we won’t have any problem. It just means that oil prices will reach 150 dollars, which will bring good luck for the government of [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad."
The world media has largely ignored his statements against the USA. In his speech he said:We are in the process of an historical war between the World of Arrogance [i.e. the West] and the Islamic world, and this war has been going on for hundreds of years. ...
The issue of this [World without Zionism] conference is very valuable. In this very grave war, many people are trying to scatter grains of desperation and hopelessness regarding the struggle between the Islamic world and the front of the infidels ...
Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and surely can be achieved..
A visual prop used at the event speaks a thousand words.
[10/16-10/22]
Iran Press News published comments by Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei on Iran's nuclear program:[10/09-10/15]
"We will stand firm till our last breathe and we will give our last drop of blood though we are certain that it will not take that. We must impel a showdown with the false foundations of all these satanic forces.
We must obtain 'the might.' If the Islamic Iran can talk 'science' on the first-world level, it will all be doable from there, as 'science' will bring us wealth and power."
Con Coughlin, The Telegraph UK quoted a diplomat's response to the earth shattering revelation about Jack Straw's gag order on British Diplomats in regards to Iran.[10/02-10/08]
"It was all very amusing,...For years diplomats have been under strict instructions not to say anything in public that might upset the Iranians. And then someone gives it to them straight between the eyes."
Hassan Abbasi, Ahmadinejad's chief strategic guru and architect of the so-called "war preparation plan" currently under way in Iran said:[9/25-10/01]
"Once we have defeated the Anglo-Saxons the rest will run for cover..."
Iran Press News reported that Ahmadinejad said:[9/18-9/24]
The prophetic mission of the Islamic revolution is global and we as the standard-bearers of the "Velayateh Faqih" (Shiite version of khalifa) will be ready for responding to the world's needs.
Reuters reported that Iran showed off its military might on Thursday and Ahmadinejad said:[9/11-9/17]
"Those who decide to misuse our nation's honour and dignity and want to test what has been tested in the past, should know that the flames of the nation's wrath are very hot and destructive."
Reuters quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying:[9/04-9/10]
"The Islamic Republic never seeks weapons of mass destruction and with respect to the needs of Islamic countries, we are ready to transfer nuclear know-how to these countries."
Iran Press News reported that Larijani, the Secretary of the regime's high council of security, warned:[8/28-9/03]
Europeans and other major world powers (China and Russia) better not make the mistake of using the big stick of the U.N.'s Security Council.
Iran Press News reported that Iran's Supreme Leader doubts Islamic terrorists exist, saying:[8/21-8/27]
We are very doubtful of the existence of people who are supposedly followers of a backward form of Islam... bombing buses and metros... adding: do these groups and elements actually exist?
Iran Focus: In an under-reported new story, quoted former hostage, Kevin Hermening, recounted how:[8/14-8/20]
"Ahmadinejad tried to force him to open the embassy’s safe after the takeover."
The chief nuclear affairs negotiator, Hossein Musavian in an interview broadcast on Iranian television August 4th:[8/07-8/13]
"Thanks to the negotiations with Europe," he bragged, "we gained another year, in which we completed...Isfahan."
MemriTV.org reported that the Chief Iranian negotiator, Hosein Musavian, said:[7/30-8/06]
The negotiations with Europe bought us time to complete the Esfahan UCF Project.
You are not going to believe this press conference with Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi, broadcast on Iranian in which reporters ask questions about Iran’s plan to restart their UCF (Uranium Conversion Facility) at Esfehan:[7/24-7/29]
Reporter: What will the scope of the (UCF) activity in Esfahan be at the beginning? Will it have full or partial capacity?
Asefi: What do you care?
Female reporter: I’ll repeat my colleague’s question...
Asefi: Go ahead, please...
Female reporter:... regarding the UCF in Esfahan. Will its activity start at full or partial capacity, in order to show that the suspension...
Asefi: He asked, and I already said it is of no interest to you.
Female reporter: Please tell us, it might interest us.
Asefi: No. I know it is of no interest to you.
MEMRI reported that Iranian President-Elect, Ahmadinejad, said:[7/17-7/23]
Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal than the art of martyrdom? ... Have no doubt... Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.
A former political prisoner who was released temporarily from Evin prison at the end of June, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, told The New York Sun:[7/10-7/16]
"Never in these past 25 years has the Islamic republic been in so much turmoil. The minute Akbar Ganji dies, you will see what a revolution looks like here."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: To sin by silence...[7/03-7/09]
To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare, must speak and speak again
To right the wrongs of many. Speech, thank God,
No vested power in this great day and land
Can gag or throttle. ...
Amir Taheri, The Times UK said about the London bombing:[6/26-7/2]
It may take some time before the full identity of the attackers is established. But the ideology that motivates them, the networks that sustain them and the groups that finance them are all too well known.
[6/19-6/25]In a press conference carried live by CNN and the BCC, Ahmadinejad dismissed questions about human rights and nuclear issues by saying:
"these discussions have worn thin and are offensive."
In an interview, Iranian student dissident Ahmad Batebi said,[6/12-6/18]
The candidates were never elected by the people, the selection of the candidates are from the supreme leader. The people of Iran had no power in choosing any of them.
BBC Monitoring Service, Monsters and Critics. Excerpt from statement issued by reformist candidate Mostafa Mo'in, after the election results:[6/5-6/11]
"Today, anyone can clearly see the effect of this organized interference on the election results. I declare that what happened was an extra-legal move to deprive one candidate of his right and to pull up another candidate.I declare that with this move, the warning bell has sounded for our fledgling democracy."
Michael Ledeen wrote in the National Review:[5/29-6/4]
"Continued silence and inaction on Iran are shameful and cowardly, unworthy of any serious nation, let alone the world's lone superpower."
Reza Pahlavi, who has lived in the U.S. since his father was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic revolution, said:[5/22-5/28]
Iran was the only country in the world "whose written constitution specifically denies that sovereignty belongs to its citizens."
Adnkronos International reported that a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader said,[5/15-5/21]"Vote for Rafsanjani and we will have nuclear bombs."
The NY Sun reported that Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize said:[5/8-5/14]"We must take care that Western countries not take advantage of democracy and human rights and use these concepts as a license to attack other countries."
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said:[5/1-5/7]"The capitalists have forged dominance over the mass media and the press and there is no real democracy in the Western states."
National Public Radio reported a young Iranian as saying:[4/24-4/30]
"In Iran, everybody hates the regime... including the regime."
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said:[4/10-4/16]
"human rights are a weapon in the hands of our enemies to fight Islam."
Mr. Amir Abbas Fakhravar is serving an eight years imprisonment, on charges of insulting the leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i:[4/3-4/9]
"I can tell you very frankly that if the present rulers come out in broad daylight telling people that it is noon time and the sun is shining, people would not believe them and go saying it is full night."
Head of Iranian Nuclear Negotiating Team Sirus Nasseri said the U.S. and the EU should "get used to the idea of a nuclear Iran."[3/27-4/2]
Iranians were in the streets chanting:[3/20-3/26]
"Death to those who kill our freedom-fighters. Death to a puppet parliament; Death to armed despots...
Mohammed El Baradei sold out the Iranian people:[3/13-3/19]"Iran must feel assured that no one is thinking of attacking or provoking regime change..."
US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice said about Iran:[3/6-3/12]
"...we don't want to do anything that legitimizes this government -- the mullahs -- in a direct way. And so there isn't any indication here of "warming of relations."
President Bush:
"The Iranian regime should listen to the concerns of the world, and listen to the voice of the Iranian people, who long for their liberty and want their country to be a respected member of the international community. We look forward to the day when Iran joins in the hopeful changes taking place across the region. We look forward to the day when the Iranian people are free."
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