Ayatollah Ali Quotes (15 Quotes)

The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities.

I say here that the U.S. government has no right to summon Iranian officials.

The Iranian nation and its officials are peace-seekers and the Islamic republic would not invade anybody.

If it is against the interests of our country, we do not accept it. They threatened us with the Security Council as if the council is the end of the world.

I would like to advise all the dear brothers and sisters and also myself to observe piety and virtue and to be watchful of ourselves in our words, deeds, thoughts and intentions.

We must make a plan so all Muslims will be able to supply the Palestinians with a yearly financial aid package.

The West knows very well that we are not seeking to build nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are against our political and economic interests and our Islamic beliefs. Therefore, the Islamic Republic will not fear the uproar and will continue the path of scientific progress relying on its principles and the world cannot influence the will of our people.

Your martyrs are our martyrs, your sorrow and grief are our own sorrow and grief, and your victory is our own.

The Islamic Republic of Iran considers retreat over the nuclear issue ... as breaking the country's independence which will impose huge costs on the Iranian nation.

The Iranian nation will give a double response to any strike.

The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

Iran will respond twofold to any attack.

Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, use good language and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.

The leadership of Iran has pledged at the highest level that Iran will remain a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) and has placed the entire scope of its nuclear activities under IAEA safeguards and additional protocol, in addition to undertaking voluntary transparency measures with the agency that have even gone beyond the requirements of the agency's safeguard system.

The intense enmity of arrogant powers toward Islam is revealed by their hostile cultural, political and military acts against Muslims. This is also another indisputable reality of the present world.