#iranian

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#al #any #base #cities #city

Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous. ↗

— Laura Fitzgerald

#men

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#dependence #i #india #iranian #know

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. ↗

— John McCain

#doing #fear #give #greatest #iranians

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#cinema #dictatorship #i #i love #iranian

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#culture #established #hundreds #iranians #islamic

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#british #censorship #creative #creative expression #day

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#different #different angles #especially #good #iranian

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. ↗

— William Odom

#bin #both #drain #huge #i

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. ↗

— William Odom

#arab #because #bin #destroy #however