Ayatollah Khamenei Quotes (29 Quotes)

The government and people of Iraq can with their voices seek a timetable for the exit of the occupiers, ... Certainly, in the end the Americans and British will be forced by bitter experience to leave Iraq.

Holding absolute power is heresy in Islam.

a deviant media movement that is trying to shape public opinion and turn it against Islam, the revolution and the Islamic Republic.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

The issue of Palestine should be the issue of the Islamic world. Palestine should return to Palestinian people and they should run the whole country.

deal with those who have supported the people of Palestine in their struggle against Israel.

One should always try to acquire knowledge from those who possess it. However, the Islamic world should try not to remain a student all the time. Rather, it should make use of its talents and make optimal use of its innovation and abilities to make scientific advances.

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

In the nuclear energy field, our purpose has nothing to do with nuclear weapons, nor would this technology ever be diverted into (making) weapons,

What is important for them is talks, ... The Americans want Iran to sit down at the table of talks. This propaganda campaign is aimed at showing that Iran has surrendered.

Talks with the United States have no benefit for us and are harmful to us,

America does not have the competence to guide a global movement against terrorism, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will not participate in any move which is headed by the United States.

This nation is not a nation that would succumb to the impositions and bullying of the U.S. or any other,

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

How dare you ask for our assistance when you have been dealing blow after blow against Iran for the past 23 years

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

The occupiers of Iraq have imposed their ominous presence on the Iraqi nation under pretext of providing them with security. They are responsible for such tragedies.

Aid should continue to come so that, God willing, it will be possible to rebuild the city of Bam better and this time stronger than before.

The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

Resorting to violence, crackdowns and authoritarian methods, as we see today toward students, are not only illegal and lacking popular, religious and moral legitimacy, but will also bear no result and will only exacerbate the crisis,

The Iranian nation does not accept that achieving nuclear science could be permitted for one country and prohibited for another on baseless grounds,

What is the difference between those who detonate bombs and kill people today and Saddam, who is on trial for killing people in the past

Although the retreat of the Zionist regime from Gaza is short of Palestinian rights and demands, it is however a big victory that shows the inability of the occupier regime of Qods (Jerusalem),

The pioneer and harbinger of irreconcilable enmity (with Iran) was the American government and its Zionist appendix in the Middle East,

Using nuclear technology is an obligation and a national demand any going back in the nuclear field is the same as losing the country's independence, which will have a very high price.

The nuclear capability of Iranian scientists is one example of the numerous scientific movements in the country, and the Islamic republic is ready to transfer this experience and the technology and knowledge of its scientists.

The presence of foreign troops is damaging for the Iraqis, and the Iraqi government could ask for their departure by proposing a timetable, ... the US and Britain will eventually have to leave Iraq with a bitter experience.

I have ... so far prevented the lighting of a fire in this region which would be hard to extinguish, ... but all should know that a very great and wide danger is quite near.

The Islamic Republic of Iran holds the American government responsible for the suffering of the Iraqi people and all the crimes and assassinations now being committed in Iraq,