"It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region."
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"Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists."
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"Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt. People who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non-Arabs'."
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"The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel.""
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"Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated."
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"The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial."
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"Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it."
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"[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state."
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"Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians."
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"The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots."
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"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."
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"It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc."
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"The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan."
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"No, we did not do this, and we are not with you."
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"From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be."
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"The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings."
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"The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography."
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"In order to threaten Iran, you [America] say that you can secure the energy flow in the region. You are wrong. Beware that if you make the slightest mistake over Iran, the energy flow through this region will be seriously endangered. You will never be capable of providing energy security in this region. You are not capable and you should know this."
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"The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all."
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"The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority."
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