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The Ayatollah is fueling Putin’s war machine and plans to contribute to the deaths of countless innocent Ukrainians, instead of enforcing congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran’s drone program, the administration continues to pursue a disastrous nuclear deal with Tehran. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You can’t allow thugs like Maduro in Venezuela and the Ayatollah on a site and then not let a conservative in America on a site. – Rick Scott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is time for the U.S., Europe, and the countries of the region to adopt a firm policy by expanding sanctions, and holding [President Ebrahim] Raisi and [Ayatollah] Khamenei to account until Tehran abandons its rogue behavior and ends human rights violations. – Alireza Jafarzadeh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This assures that the leadership in the 'deep state,' that were something to happen to Ayatollah Khamenei in the next four to eight years, elements supportive of their interests will be in key places to control the future of Iran. – Mehrdad Khonsari	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Iraqis want to get rid of both. Some might like one more than they other, and they don't want just one of the two alone there, to dominate their country, shia Iraqis may be loosely aligned with Iran, but they don't subscribe to the Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Iranian way is not all what Shia Iraqis want. – Joost Hitermann	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Today the Treasury Department is targeting the unelected officials who surround Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and implement his destabilizing policies, these individuals are linked to a wide range of malign behaviors by the regime, including bombings of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in 1994, as well as torture, extrajudicial killingsand repression of civilians. – Steven Mnuchin	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Were that true — it's not, but were that true — it doesn't change the fingerprints of the Ayatollah as having put at risk the global energy supply, we also know that these are systems that the Iranians have not deployed anyplace else, that they have not deployed outside of the country, to the best of our knowledge. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They explained to us how the Iranian threat streams were different than in the past, that the attack on the ships and the pipeline was coordinated and directed by the Iranian government, the ayatollah. – Lindsey Graham	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Ayatollah Raisi has recently started his work in this area and we will have to see what his view will be. – Telecoms Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have made our demands very clear to the ayatollah and his cronies : end Read MoreNoting pursuit of nuclear weapons, stop testing and proliferating ballistic missiles, stop sponsoring and committing terrorism, halt the arbitrary detention of The US citizens. Our pressure is aimed at ending these and others and it will continue to accelerate until Iran is willing to address them at the negotiating table. – The US	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Think about that, but we will never hear that from Ayatollah Obama because that's what he really is, he is, in whatever way, I don't know what his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood is, but he's got them in all kinds of positions of power, other smarter people than me have have laid out the case and shown who these people are. I'm just seeing the result. You're seeing the results. You've been asking yourself, 'Why is it that he won't actually call Islamic jihadism, Islamic jihadism? Why is it that he's so passionate about taking away your guns, taking away your First Amendment, your right to speak the truth about this great evil?' But that's because it works. That's because it's part of a plan. That's because the left has always been more organized. They've had playbooks because they have people that get paid in the ivory towers to concoct these plans. – Tim Donnelly	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Two days ago, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's leader, declared that his intention is to destroy the State of Israel. Yesterday, he said how he would do this, by unlimited enrichment in order to produce an arsenal of nuclear bombs, we are not surprised, we will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They should have held a public trial, i am not angry with the government or the Supreme Leader (of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). I am angry with extremist security forces who were on his case, trying to prove he was a spy and who maybe forced him to confess to things he hadn't done. – Marzieh Amiri	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Ayatollah Khamenei, the commander in chief of the IRGC, regularly praises Iranian officials who defy the U.S. and scorns officials who advocate cooperation with the U.S., i haven't seen any signs that this institutional culture has changed after the nuclear deal. – Karim Sadjadpour	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
In the case of the British embassy we are not aware of any legal action taking place against the aggressors, although months later (the Supreme Leader) Ayatollah Khamenei criticized the move, the attackers walked free and nothing happened to them more than a gentle slap on the hand. – Hossein Rassam	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
And if the ayatollah doesn't understand that, we may have to help introduce him to the 72 virgins. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When I'm President of the United States, we will reimpose those sanctions on day one, and then I will go to Congress and ask them to even increase those sanctions more, and I will back that up with a credible threat of military force, a simple message to the Ayatollah: If you try to build a weapon, we will destroy your program. – Florida Sen. Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Iranians have now secured enough votes in the Senate to ensure they have a pathway to a bomb, the missile to deliver it, and the money to pay for it, the only reason the Ayatollah and his henchmen aren't dancing in the streets of Tehran is they don't believe in dancing. – Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ayatollah Khamenei's silence is calculated. He is weighing up the situation, he is standing cautiously somewhere in the middle, so no one can interpret his words as approval or disapproval. – Isa Saharkhiz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The critics of the nuclear deal have financial and even military power. Ayatollah Khamenei has no choice but caution in the face of a deal that changes the future of Iran. – Kourosh Zaim	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Ayatollah Khomeini was a powerful leader and no one dared to disagree with his decisions. But Khamenei's position is not the same. – Kourosh Zaim	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Because I assure you, the ayatollah -- if the United States arbitrarily and unilaterally kills this -- you're not going to have another negotiation, and they will feel free to go do the very things that this prevents. – Scott Walker	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In the short term, you have the immediate threat of ISIS. But in the long term, the deeper threat is to Iraq’s ability to be free and independent of Iran, dependence on the Shia militias, who have sworn allegiance to the ayatollah, is a problem. The Popular Liberation Forces number about 70,000, including a core of 15,000 hardened fighters who most recently did battle at Tehran’s behest in Syria, where they fought Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Free Syrian Army, Rick Brennan said. Iraq may need their help now, but giving them an official role in the fight against ISIS could further entrench them as both a political and military force within Iraq, Rick Brennan said. – Rick Brennan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
And we all know the answer to that question - it's Ayatollah Khamenei and the IRGC’s top command, i think it (prosecution of Ahmadinejad) is a political liability they just can’t afford at this time. – Abbas Milani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The Ayatollah is fueling Putin’s war machine and plans to contribute to the deaths of countless innocent Ukrainians, instead of enforcing congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran’s drone program, the administration continues to pursue a disastrous nuclear deal with Tehran.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You can’t allow thugs like Maduro in Venezuela and the Ayatollah on a site and then not let a conservative in America on a site.

– Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is time for the U.S., Europe, and the countries of the region to adopt a firm policy by expanding sanctions, and holding [President Ebrahim] Raisi and [Ayatollah] Khamenei to account until Tehran abandons its rogue behavior and ends human rights violations.

– Alireza Jafarzadeh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This assures that the leadership in the 'deep state,' that were something to happen to Ayatollah Khamenei in the next four to eight years, elements supportive of their interests will be in key places to control the future of Iran.

– Mehrdad Khonsari

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Iraqis want to get rid of both. Some might like one more than they other, and they don't want just one of the two alone there, to dominate their country, shia Iraqis may be loosely aligned with Iran, but they don't subscribe to the Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Iranian way is not all what Shia Iraqis want.

– Joost Hitermann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Today the Treasury Department is targeting the unelected officials who surround Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and implement his destabilizing policies, these individuals are linked to a wide range of malign behaviors by the regime, including bombings of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in 1994, as well as torture, extrajudicial killingsand repression of civilians.

– Steven Mnuchin

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Were that true — it's not, but were that true — it doesn't change the fingerprints of the Ayatollah as having put at risk the global energy supply, we also know that these are systems that the Iranians have not deployed anyplace else, that they have not deployed outside of the country, to the best of our knowledge.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They explained to us how the Iranian threat streams were different than in the past, that the attack on the ships and the pipeline was coordinated and directed by the Iranian government, the ayatollah.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Ayatollah Raisi has recently started his work in this area and we will have to see what his view will be.

– Telecoms Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have made our demands very clear to the ayatollah and his cronies : end Read MoreNoting pursuit of nuclear weapons, stop testing and proliferating ballistic missiles, stop sponsoring and committing terrorism, halt the arbitrary detention of The US citizens. Our pressure is aimed at ending these and others and it will continue to accelerate until Iran is willing to address them at the negotiating table.

– The US

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Think about that, but we will never hear that from Ayatollah Obama because that's what he really is, he is, in whatever way, I don't know what his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood is, but he's got them in all kinds of positions of power, other smarter people than me have have laid out the case and shown who these people are. I'm just seeing the result. You're seeing the results. You've been asking yourself, 'Why is it that he won't actually call Islamic jihadism, Islamic jihadism? Why is it that he's so passionate about taking away your guns, taking away your First Amendment, your right to speak the truth about this great evil?' But that's because it works. That's because it's part of a plan. That's because the left has always been more organized. They've had playbooks because they have people that get paid in the ivory towers to concoct these plans.

– Tim Donnelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Two days ago, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's leader, declared that his intention is to destroy the State of Israel. Yesterday, he said how he would do this, by unlimited enrichment in order to produce an arsenal of nuclear bombs, we are not surprised, we will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They should have held a public trial, i am not angry with the government or the Supreme Leader (of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). I am angry with extremist security forces who were on his case, trying to prove he was a spy and who maybe forced him to confess to things he hadn't done.

– Marzieh Amiri

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Ayatollah Khamenei, the commander in chief of the IRGC, regularly praises Iranian officials who defy the U.S. and scorns officials who advocate cooperation with the U.S., i haven't seen any signs that this institutional culture has changed after the nuclear deal.

– Karim Sadjadpour

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In the case of the British embassy we are not aware of any legal action taking place against the aggressors, although months later (the Supreme Leader) Ayatollah Khamenei criticized the move, the attackers walked free and nothing happened to them more than a gentle slap on the hand.

– Hossein Rassam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

And if the ayatollah doesn't understand that, we may have to help introduce him to the 72 virgins.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When I'm President of the United States, we will reimpose those sanctions on day one, and then I will go to Congress and ask them to even increase those sanctions more, and I will back that up with a credible threat of military force, a simple message to the Ayatollah: If you try to build a weapon, we will destroy your program.

– Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Iranians have now secured enough votes in the Senate to ensure they have a pathway to a bomb, the missile to deliver it, and the money to pay for it, the only reason the Ayatollah and his henchmen aren't dancing in the streets of Tehran is they don't believe in dancing.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Ayatollah Khamenei's silence is calculated. He is weighing up the situation, he is standing cautiously somewhere in the middle, so no one can interpret his words as approval or disapproval.

– Isa Saharkhiz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The critics of the nuclear deal have financial and even military power. Ayatollah Khamenei has no choice but caution in the face of a deal that changes the future of Iran.

– Kourosh Zaim

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ayatollah Khomeini was a powerful leader and no one dared to disagree with his decisions. But Khamenei's position is not the same.

– Kourosh Zaim

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Because I assure you, the ayatollah -- if the United States arbitrarily and unilaterally kills this -- you're not going to have another negotiation, and they will feel free to go do the very things that this prevents.

– Scott Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the short term, you have the immediate threat of ISIS. But in the long term, the deeper threat is to Iraq’s ability to be free and independent of Iran, dependence on the Shia militias, who have sworn allegiance to the ayatollah, is a problem. The Popular Liberation Forces number about 70,000, including a core of 15,000 hardened fighters who most recently did battle at Tehran’s behest in Syria, where they fought Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Free Syrian Army, Rick Brennan said. Iraq may need their help now, but giving them an official role in the fight against ISIS could further entrench them as both a political and military force within Iraq, Rick Brennan said.

– Rick Brennan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

And we all know the answer to that question - it's Ayatollah Khamenei and the IRGC’s top command, i think it (prosecution of Ahmadinejad) is a political liability they just can’t afford at this time.

– Abbas Milani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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