The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must..

So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful future of Syria to come ….

The nuclear program is not the only issue dividing Iran and the US. Iran's role in the region is also creating conflicts. For example, you support th….

You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who ….

We consider ISIS and extremism to be a threat to all of us in the region. . . . Our position is that we help the legitimate governments in the region….

The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy ac….

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear….

Iran is a powerful country. Iran is a big country with a large population, natural resources, human resources. But we are a country that is content w….

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used..

Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the pe….

This visa-waiver thing is absurd. Has anybody in the West been targeted by any Iranian national, anybody of Iranian origin, or anyone travelling to I….

You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others..

I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find eve….

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries..

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation ….

We're [Iran] not dismantling anything. We are uninstalling some centrifuges and reconstructing the Arak reactor, modernizing it. . . . The remaining ….

People have been fed misinformation. The fact is that the fighting that is going on on the ground in Syria is with Al Qaeda, with Jabhat al Nusra, wi….

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq..

I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared to accept whatever the out….

It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [th….

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq..