Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

#1. We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

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#2. Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

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#3. One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,.

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#4. The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.

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#5. Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

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#6. We're [Iran] not dismantling anything. We are uninstalling some centrifuges and reconstructing the Arak reactor, modernizing it ... The remaining activities that we need undertake will not take more than several days, less than two weeks.

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#7. You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others

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#8. Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.

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#9. If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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#10. Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

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#11. We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

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#12. It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.

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