Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime [in Israel] must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine... I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research any issue, except for this issue, which is sealed. It is a black box, which they do not allow to be opened or reexamined. They do this in order to exploit it.

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We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

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Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

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The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

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Israel must be wiped off the map.

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No country in the world looks upon America as a friend. When the U.S. is mentioned, people are reminded of war, aggression and bloodshed, and that's not a good thing. In other words, the American people are paying for something they don't believe in.

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Everyone must learn from the past.

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The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.

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Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the liberal democratic systems.

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We've never been anti-Semitic.

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My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

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We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.

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And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.

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I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

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All peoples are fed up with the American government.

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We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

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Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

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I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

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Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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