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.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#4. End the eternal battle of beliefs once and for all. If you are a believer, love your fellow non-believer for all the good things he or she has to offer. And if you are an atheist, then love your fellow believer for all the positivity he or she possesses.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#7. 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.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#8. He nodded. "You're right. It's probably for the best."
Bitterness rose in my throat. I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

Mary E. Pearson

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

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#10. I'm getting better at it everyday.

Esther Hicks

#11. 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.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#12. Your body is mine. Nobody sees it but me. Nobody touches it but me.

Alexa Riley

#13. I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#14. Miracle focus gospel is a deceptive gospel

Sunday Adelaja

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

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#17. What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.

Sidney Blumenthal

#18. 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.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#19. 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.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#20. Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

John Glenn