Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Trending quotes (page 3)

“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.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

July 25, 2006
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/07/25/iran_president_warns_of_hurricane_in_middle_east/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News
2006

Question , Problem , Strong

“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

Paragraph 23
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

Support , Parting , Wealth

“Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East region is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations? Can the possibility of scientific achievements being utilized for military purposes be reason enough to oppose science and technology altogether?”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Paragraph 20
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

Science

“If the Europeans are telling the truth in their claim that they have killed six million Jews in the Holocaust during the World War II - which seems they are right in their claim because they insist on it and arrest and imprison those who oppose it, why should the Palestinian nation pay for the crime. Why have they come to the very heart of the Islamic world and are committing crimes against the dear Palestine using their bombs, rockets, missiles and sanctions. […] The same European countries have imposed the illegally-established Zionist regime on the oppressed nation of Palestine. If you have committed the crimes so give a piece of your land somewhere in Europe or America and Canada or Alaska to them to set up their own state there. Then the Iranian nation will have no objections, will stage no rallies on the Qods Day and will support your decision.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Translation by Islamic Republic News Agency, Dec 2005
2005, The World without Zionism, 2005

War , Truth , World , Support

“I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust. But, does it not stand to reason that some victorious countries of World War II intended to create an alibi on the basis of which they could continue keeping the defeated nations of World War II indebted to them. Their purpose has been to weaken their morale and their inspiration in order to obstruct their progress and power. In addition to the people of Germany, the peoples of the Middle East have also borne the brunt of the Holocaust. By raising the necessity of settling the survivors of the Holocaust in the land of Palestine, they have created a permanent threat in the Middle East in order to rob the people of the region of the opportunities to achieve progress.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2006, Letter to Angela Merkel, 2006

War , People , World , Victory

“I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime (in Israel) soon be wiped out.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2006
Source: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/13/1451213

Country

“…many questions about the phenomenon of Israel… Students are saying that sixty years ago such a country did not exist… I tell them to study the history of WWI and WWII. One of my students told me that during WWII, which more than tens of millions of people perished in, news about the war, was quickly disseminated by the warring parties. Each touted their victories and the most recent battlefront defeat of the other party. After the war they claimed that six million Jews had been killed. Six million people that were surely related to at least two million families. Again let us assume that these events are true. Does that logically translate into the establishment of the state of Israel in the Middle East or support for such a state? How can this phenomenon be rationalized or explained?”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Paragraphs 8, 10-12
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

War , People , Family , History

“Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2006
Source: Time Magazine, December 2006 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570714,00.html

War

“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

Paragraphs 3-4
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

People , Home , Water , Country

“The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Source(s): http://emruz.info/ShowItem.aspx?ID=3004&p=1, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HL01Ak03.html
2006

World

“I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

PBUH
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

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

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2008-02-23 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7261040.stm
2008

“From the beginning of time, humanity has longed for the day when justice, peace, equality and compassion envelop the world. All of us can contribute to the establishment of such a world. When that day comes, the ultimate promise of all Divine religions will be fulfilled with the emergence of a perfect human being who is heir to all prophets and pious men. He will lead the world to justice and absolute peace.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad