Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

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Or because of the possibility of the existence of WMDs in one country, it is occupied, around one hundred thousand people killed, its water sources, agriculture and industry destroyed, close to 180,000 foreign troops put on the ground, sanctity of private homes of citizens broken, and the country pushed back perhaps fifty years. At what price?... On the pretext of the existence of WMDs, this great tragedy came to engulf both the peoples of the occupied and the occupying country. Later it was revealed that no WMDs existed to begin with.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported? Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth – including minerals – is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
If (problems) are decided through the use of force, everything becomes double-complicated.... He who sows the wind will reap a hurricane and this will be a very strong storm in the whole Middle East region, which will strike painfully.... All questions on international security have to be settled only through dialogue because using force will not lead anywhere.

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They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets. The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of candy man the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets, (it) deals very severely with those who deny this myth but does not do anything to those who deny God, religion, and the prophet. If you have burned the Jews, why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel? Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There are prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that have not been tried, have no legal representation, their families cannot see them and are obviously kept in a strange land outside their own country. There is no international monitoring of their conditions and fate. No one knows whether they are prisoners, POWs, accused or criminals. European investigators have confirmed the existence of secret prisons in Europe too.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Why should it be insulting? … Something happened there which led to other events. Many innocent people were killed there. Some of those people were American citizens obviously. We obviously are very much against any terrorist action and any killing. And also we are very much against any plots to sow the seeds of discord among nations. Usually you go to these sites to pay your respects. And— also to perhaps to air your views about the root causes of such incidents. I think that when I do that, I will be paying, as I said earlier, my respect to the American nation.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime [Israel], which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.

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Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

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If all of you gather and also invite your ancestors from hell, you will still not be able to stop the Great Iranian nation.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
If they want to continue with that path of sanctions, we will not be harmed. They can issue resolutions for 100 years.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

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Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.

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