Birth: February 1, 1962
Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach..
Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh..
I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase….
Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world wil….
We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad..
We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria. A coalition that was led by the United States, with Saudi Arabia being one of the fi….
We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces. All of this, however, is still in the discu….
We want to have good ties with the Iranians, but if they want good ties with us, then I tell them: Don't keep attacking us as you have done for the l….
The Iranians know what they need to do in order to become a responsible member of the international community and in order to become a good neighbor,….
Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty mil….
We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated..
Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They're psychopaths..
We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has cap….
The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted. We had no other option - there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the ….
After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the aff….
We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case….
Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process..