Ayatollah Khamenei Quotations

The only way to confront the Zionist enemy is the continuation and fortification of resistance and Jihad,

One should always try to acquire knowledge from those who possess it. However, the Islamic world should try not to remain a student all the time. Rather, it should make use of its talents and make optimal use of its innovation and abilities to make scientific advances.

From the beginning of the Islamic revolution, they made the embassy a place for planning conspiracies and these activities led the students to attack and take over the embassy, ... If somebody wants to write about the crimes of the United States, it would be a big book.

The alert and decisive nation and government of Iran... will not pay attention to these threats.

Using nuclear technology is an obligation and a national demand; any going back in the nuclear field is the same as losing the country's independence, which will have a very high price.

The presence of foreign troops is damaging for the Iraqis, and the Iraqi government could ask for their departure by proposing a timetable, ... the US and Britain will eventually have to leave Iraq with a bitter experience.

This nation is not a nation that would succumb to the impositions and bullying of the U.S. or any other,

Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be polite, use good language and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.

The government and people of Iraq can with their voices seek a timetable for the exit of the occupiers, ... Certainly, in the end the Americans and British will be forced by bitter experience to leave Iraq.

We will not commit aggression towards any nations.

Is not your insistence on holding the elections as scheduled anything but putting your seal of approval on the illegal actions of the Guardian Council?

a deviant media movement that is trying to shape public opinion and turn it against Islam, the revolution and the Islamic Republic.

Aid should continue to come so that, God willing, it will be possible to rebuild the city of Bam better and this time stronger than before.

The nuclear capability of Iranian scientists is one example of the numerous scientific movements in the country, and the Islamic republic is ready to transfer this experience and the technology and knowledge of its scientists.

Talks with the United States have no benefit for us and are harmful to us,

Supporting the Palestinian people is one of our important Islamic duties.

I have ... so far prevented the lighting of a fire in this region which would be hard to extinguish, ... but all should know that a very great and wide danger is quite near.

In the nuclear energy field, our purpose has nothing to do with nuclear weapons, nor would this technology ever be diverted into (making) weapons,

The Iranian nation does not accept that achieving nuclear science could be permitted for one country and prohibited for another on baseless grounds,