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ERIC CHANEY If you impose sanctions theoretically on Iran, then it would be appropriate to ask a question: Who i...
ANDREI DENISOV The referral of Iran to the U.N. Security Council suggests that the crisis might have legs as the wo...
ED KEON While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear-testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU If UN Security council sanctions are to be imposed on Iran, we will suspend our cooperation with the...
ALI LARIJANI Clearly it's escalation, and also an attempt by Iran to flex its muscles as it goes into a new phase...
YOSSI ALPHER It's important that the world understands that this is not an Israeli issue, it's a world problem, a...
ARYE MEKEL The (U.N.) Security Council has warned for a long time that sanctions are needed.
GENERAL HENRI BENTEGEAT We are not now seeking sanctions or other punitive measures on Iran. We seek a carefully calibrated ...
GREGORY SCHULTE Although the market is also well supplied with crude oil and products, it was roiled by geopolitical...
EARL SWEET They are doing everything to avoid referral to the council. Iran is not strong enough to withstand s...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Japan's dependence on Iran for oil is high. It is a great matter of interest for Japan to prevent tr...
TARO ASO Sending Iran to the Security Council lacks a legal basis.
ALIASGHAR SOLTANIYEH By declaring Iran non-compliant with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as w...
JACK STRAW![]()
We... call for the rigorous implementation of the U.N. Security Council sanctions to oblige UNITA fu...
NELSON MANDELA Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Ir...
TED DEUTCH The situations in Nigeria, Iran and Iraq remain uncertain. Fears of supply disruptions from these oi...
TETSU EMORI![]()
While Iran is cooperating with the IAEA, while it is not enriching uranium and observing a moratoriu...
SERGEI LAVROV Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.
JAVIER SOLANA We consider any referral or report of Iran to the Security Council as the end of diplomacy.
ALI LARIJANI If (UN) sanctions were to be imposed on Iran, the president is perfectly capable of cutting back or ...
BRUCE EVERS![]()
While Iran is cooperating with the IAEA, while it is not enriching uranium and observing a moratoriu...
SERGEI LAVROV![]()
The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action t...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ The march to the U.N. is to say, 'hands off Iran.
DUSTIN LANGLEY We are convinced we have a solid majority for the resolution that reports Iran to the Security Counc...
GREGORY SCHULTE Everyone agreed on the need to find the diplomatic means to get Iran back into compliance with its i...
TOM CASEY The market is nervous already because Iran is coming more into the picture with the talks with Russi...
ANETTE EINARSEN Unless Dubai is willing to impose restrictions on what Iran can buy, there's no hope of stopping the...
GARY MILHOLLIN The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclu...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We do not object to informing the Security Council of the United Nations about the work carried out ...
GRIGORY BERDENNIKOV![]()
In the absence of serious Syrian cooperation on substantive matters, the mission can't get to the ul...
JOHN BOLTON It is not clear how far the Russians will go in trying to persuade the U.S. to discuss such an arran...
ACHIN VANAIK I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily. I think that . . . everybod...
EMILY LANDAU We are not now seeking sanctions or other punitive measures on Iran. We support the ongoing efforts ...
GREG SCHULTE We are convinced that we have a solid majority in support of a resolution that reports Iran to the S...
GREG SCHULTE Iran has to be nervous. They are half-way to the Security Council and they risk getting sent all the...
GARY SAMORE It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
TED DEUTCH It's not overly surprising given how much focus the Chinese have been putting on Iran in the last fe...
GAVIN THOMPSON The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic sol...
PAMELA FALK I think it's mostly the uncertainty regarding the situation in Iran and the very clear decision of t...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The non-military answer in Iran is political change.
ROBERT KAGAN We are convinced that we have a solid majority in support of a resolution that reports Iran to the S...
GREGG SCHULTE Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must s...
ALEXEI ARBATOV![]()
Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS What is important for Islamic states is the spreading of fundamentalism. In order to survive inside ...
FEVZI TüRKERI It is a matter of exerting the greatest possible pressure on the Sudanese parties to bring them to h...
ALPHA OMAR KONARE Iran is starting to loom in the picture as a threat to oil capacity.
CRAIG RUSSELL You have people concerned about inflation picking up, you have higher oil prices, and you have the t...
JEFFREY CHRISTIAN![]()
The question of sanctions against Iran puts the cart before the horse. Sanctions are in no way the b...
SERGEI LAVROV If this situation spins out of control and Iran is placed under a sanctions regime or is forcibly ma...
BART MELEK Iran is not pessimistic...but it does not permit the others to draw the outlines of talks and to imp...
ALI LARIJANI Our view is that it should be referred to the U.N. Security Council. That's where we think the next ...
RICHARD BOUCHER![]()
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council dec...
SERGEI LAVROV The whole geopolitical situation is critical and I regard Iran as extremely serious. It is the world...
GEOFF PYNE If Russia and China back Iran on the compromise option [the joint venture], then the issue will not ...
VLADIMIR YEVSEYEV![]()
At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce...
SAMANTHA POWER Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Se...
JOSE MARIA AZNAR From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. Brit...
STEPHEN KINZER We strongly believe there is no reason for sanctions but in any case we will not cut our oil exports...
KAZEM VAZIRI Now the game is afoot -- the U.N. has the ball and Iran is more defiant than ever.
KEVIN KERR The price hike comes as crude oil costs continue to climb on energy security woes involving Iran and...
KRIS LATHAN The timing for Iran to resume some voluntary suspended activities depends on the behavior of the Eur...
ALI LARIJANI Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities.
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities,
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH Iran is not bluffing over its nuclear program. They hope they can resolve the matter at the IAEA but...
NASSER HADIAN We only need to notify the IAEA that we are resuming enrichment. When we do that is our call. If Ira...
ALI LARIJANI We realize that the Supreme National Security Council has asked the newspapers to avoid publishing S...
BEHROUZ AFKHAMI Iran continues to weigh but there is a sense that it's a longer-term situation. I don't see any rash...
ANDREW HARRINGTON![]()
The draft includes points that effectively lay the groundwork for sanctions against Iran. We will ha...
SERGEI LAVROV![]()
If we can ascertain and show to our people that the West is ready to deal with Iran on the basis of ...
MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF We are not against informing the UN Security Council about the work conducted by the International A...
GRIGORY BERDENNIKOV Sanctions on Iraq are not going to be lifted while Iraq continues to violate Security Council,
BILL RICHARDSON![]()
Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purpo...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI![]()
Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprisi...
REZA ASLAN If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran get...
LIAM FOX![]()
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was exten...
NOAM CHOMSKY Sanctions could only be discussed when evidence is provided that Iran is pursuing not only peaceful ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN![]()
The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship,
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD He really means the question of how to deal with Iran. China has a very, very important role to play...
EBERHARD SANDSCHNEIDER One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not enga...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN There are fears in the market that the supply from Iran could be reduced. This is obviously positive...
MARKUS ILG there were no technical or judicial reasons for handing Iran's nuclear dossier to the U.N. Security ...
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH We don't want a policy of confrontation and sanctions and will keep our doors open for negotiations ...
MICHAEL SCHAEFER He (Annan) expects that what emerges from these talks, he will be able to sell to the (U.N.) Securit...
FRED ECKHARD Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo...
KOJI SUZUKI If the Iraqis want the sanctions lifted sooner rather than later, then what they have to do is to co...
CHRISTOPHER MEYER![]()
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT Some German machinery firms are highly dependent on doing business with Iran, so sanctions would hit...
JOCHEN CLAUSNITZER The firm start in the US might be the catalyst needed for a test of $575/oz, particularly with the I...
JAMES MOORE![]()
While Iran is cooperating with the IAEA, while it is not enriching uranium and observing a moratoriu...
SERGEI LAVROV![]()
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
HASSAN NASRALLAH [Much of Saddam's stolen revenues came from oil sales to Jordan, Turkey and Syria, which the U.S. go...
CARL LEVIN![]()
Countries like Iran threaten the effectiveness of the global [nuclear] non-proliferation regime.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic miss...
MICHAEL T. FLYNN We want to avoid a possible fish kill, due to the fish being exposed to the oil that is on the surfa...
WILLIAM HYATT The U.N. Security Council should be prepared to take firm action to bring about Iraqi compliance in ...
JAMES RUBIN OPEC should not postpone the issue of output reduction. Iran has called for carrying out discussions...
HOSSEIN KAZEMPOUR ARDEBILI There is a substantial upside for oil prices...There is a bigger upside than downside because of pos...
TOR KARTEVOLD For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its v...
BILL FLORES
ERIC CHANEY If you impose sanctions theoretically on Iran, then it would be appropriate to ask a question: Who i...
ANDREI DENISOV The referral of Iran to the U.N. Security Council suggests that the crisis might have legs as the wo...
ED KEON While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear-testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU If UN Security council sanctions are to be imposed on Iran, we will suspend our cooperation with the...
ALI LARIJANI Clearly it's escalation, and also an attempt by Iran to flex its muscles as it goes into a new phase...
YOSSI ALPHER It's important that the world understands that this is not an Israeli issue, it's a world problem, a...
ARYE MEKEL The (U.N.) Security Council has warned for a long time that sanctions are needed.
GENERAL HENRI BENTEGEAT We are not now seeking sanctions or other punitive measures on Iran. We seek a carefully calibrated ...
GREGORY SCHULTE Although the market is also well supplied with crude oil and products, it was roiled by geopolitical...
EARL SWEET They are doing everything to avoid referral to the council. Iran is not strong enough to withstand s...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Japan's dependence on Iran for oil is high. It is a great matter of interest for Japan to prevent tr...
TARO ASO Sending Iran to the Security Council lacks a legal basis.
ALIASGHAR SOLTANIYEH By declaring Iran non-compliant with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as w...
JACK STRAW
We... call for the rigorous implementation of the U.N. Security Council sanctions to oblige UNITA fu... NELSON MANDELA Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Ir...
TED DEUTCH The situations in Nigeria, Iran and Iraq remain uncertain. Fears of supply disruptions from these oi...
TETSU EMORI
While Iran is cooperating with the IAEA, while it is not enriching uranium and observing a moratoriu... SERGEI LAVROV Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.
JAVIER SOLANA We consider any referral or report of Iran to the Security Council as the end of diplomacy.
ALI LARIJANI If (UN) sanctions were to be imposed on Iran, the president is perfectly capable of cutting back or ...
BRUCE EVERS
While Iran is cooperating with the IAEA, while it is not enriching uranium and observing a moratoriu... SERGEI LAVROV
The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action t... ALLYSON SCHWARTZ The march to the U.N. is to say, 'hands off Iran.
DUSTIN LANGLEY We are convinced we have a solid majority for the resolution that reports Iran to the Security Counc...
GREGORY SCHULTE Everyone agreed on the need to find the diplomatic means to get Iran back into compliance with its i...
TOM CASEY The market is nervous already because Iran is coming more into the picture with the talks with Russi...
ANETTE EINARSEN Unless Dubai is willing to impose restrictions on what Iran can buy, there's no hope of stopping the...
GARY MILHOLLIN The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclu...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We do not object to informing the Security Council of the United Nations about the work carried out ...
GRIGORY BERDENNIKOV
In the absence of serious Syrian cooperation on substantive matters, the mission can't get to the ul... JOHN BOLTON It is not clear how far the Russians will go in trying to persuade the U.S. to discuss such an arran...
ACHIN VANAIK I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily. I think that . . . everybod...
EMILY LANDAU We are not now seeking sanctions or other punitive measures on Iran. We support the ongoing efforts ...
GREG SCHULTE We are convinced that we have a solid majority in support of a resolution that reports Iran to the S...
GREG SCHULTE Iran has to be nervous. They are half-way to the Security Council and they risk getting sent all the...
GARY SAMORE It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
TED DEUTCH It's not overly surprising given how much focus the Chinese have been putting on Iran in the last fe...
GAVIN THOMPSON The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic sol...
PAMELA FALK I think it's mostly the uncertainty regarding the situation in Iran and the very clear decision of t...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The non-military answer in Iran is political change.
ROBERT KAGAN We are convinced that we have a solid majority in support of a resolution that reports Iran to the S...
GREGG SCHULTE Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must s...
ALEXEI ARBATOV
Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. ELLIOTT ABRAMS What is important for Islamic states is the spreading of fundamentalism. In order to survive inside ...
FEVZI TüRKERI It is a matter of exerting the greatest possible pressure on the Sudanese parties to bring them to h...
ALPHA OMAR KONARE Iran is starting to loom in the picture as a threat to oil capacity.
CRAIG RUSSELL You have people concerned about inflation picking up, you have higher oil prices, and you have the t...
JEFFREY CHRISTIAN
The question of sanctions against Iran puts the cart before the horse. Sanctions are in no way the b... SERGEI LAVROV If this situation spins out of control and Iran is placed under a sanctions regime or is forcibly ma...
BART MELEK Iran is not pessimistic...but it does not permit the others to draw the outlines of talks and to imp...
ALI LARIJANI Our view is that it should be referred to the U.N. Security Council. That's where we think the next ...
RICHARD BOUCHER
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council dec... SERGEI LAVROV The whole geopolitical situation is critical and I regard Iran as extremely serious. It is the world...
GEOFF PYNE If Russia and China back Iran on the compromise option [the joint venture], then the issue will not ...
VLADIMIR YEVSEYEV
At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce... SAMANTHA POWER Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Se...
JOSE MARIA AZNAR From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. Brit...
STEPHEN KINZER We strongly believe there is no reason for sanctions but in any case we will not cut our oil exports...
KAZEM VAZIRI Now the game is afoot -- the U.N. has the ball and Iran is more defiant than ever.
KEVIN KERR The price hike comes as crude oil costs continue to climb on energy security woes involving Iran and...
KRIS LATHAN The timing for Iran to resume some voluntary suspended activities depends on the behavior of the Eur...
ALI LARIJANI Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities.
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities,
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH Iran is not bluffing over its nuclear program. They hope they can resolve the matter at the IAEA but...
NASSER HADIAN We only need to notify the IAEA that we are resuming enrichment. When we do that is our call. If Ira...
ALI LARIJANI We realize that the Supreme National Security Council has asked the newspapers to avoid publishing S...
BEHROUZ AFKHAMI Iran continues to weigh but there is a sense that it's a longer-term situation. I don't see any rash...
ANDREW HARRINGTON
The draft includes points that effectively lay the groundwork for sanctions against Iran. We will ha... SERGEI LAVROV
If we can ascertain and show to our people that the West is ready to deal with Iran on the basis of ... MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF We are not against informing the UN Security Council about the work conducted by the International A...
GRIGORY BERDENNIKOV Sanctions on Iraq are not going to be lifted while Iraq continues to violate Security Council,
BILL RICHARDSON
Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purpo... ROBERT KIYOSAKI
Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprisi... REZA ASLAN If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran get...
LIAM FOX
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was exten... NOAM CHOMSKY Sanctions could only be discussed when evidence is provided that Iran is pursuing not only peaceful ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship, MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD He really means the question of how to deal with Iran. China has a very, very important role to play...
EBERHARD SANDSCHNEIDER One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not enga...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN There are fears in the market that the supply from Iran could be reduced. This is obviously positive...
MARKUS ILG there were no technical or judicial reasons for handing Iran's nuclear dossier to the U.N. Security ...
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH We don't want a policy of confrontation and sanctions and will keep our doors open for negotiations ...
MICHAEL SCHAEFER He (Annan) expects that what emerges from these talks, he will be able to sell to the (U.N.) Securit...
FRED ECKHARD Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo...
KOJI SUZUKI If the Iraqis want the sanctions lifted sooner rather than later, then what they have to do is to co...
CHRISTOPHER MEYER
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. H. P. LOVECRAFT Some German machinery firms are highly dependent on doing business with Iran, so sanctions would hit...
JOCHEN CLAUSNITZER The firm start in the US might be the catalyst needed for a test of $575/oz, particularly with the I...
JAMES MOORE
While Iran is cooperating with the IAEA, while it is not enriching uranium and observing a moratoriu... SERGEI LAVROV
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto. HASSAN NASRALLAH [Much of Saddam's stolen revenues came from oil sales to Jordan, Turkey and Syria, which the U.S. go...
CARL LEVIN
Countries like Iran threaten the effectiveness of the global [nuclear] non-proliferation regime. CONDOLEEZZA RICE One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic miss...
MICHAEL T. FLYNN We want to avoid a possible fish kill, due to the fish being exposed to the oil that is on the surfa...
WILLIAM HYATT The U.N. Security Council should be prepared to take firm action to bring about Iraqi compliance in ...
JAMES RUBIN OPEC should not postpone the issue of output reduction. Iran has called for carrying out discussions...
HOSSEIN KAZEMPOUR ARDEBILI There is a substantial upside for oil prices...There is a bigger upside than downside because of pos...
TOR KARTEVOLD For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its v...
BILL FLORES
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