Mahmoud Ahmadinejad quotes

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an Iranian politician who served as the President of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Known for his controversial statements and confrontational stance toward the West, he drew significant international attention during his presidency. He remains an influential figure in Iranian politics and public discourse. Here are 122 of his quotes:

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury. (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. [...] In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this. View quote
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There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world, ... The World without Zionism. View quote
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. View quote
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I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much. View quote
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We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years. View quote
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I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime (in Israel) soon be wiped out." View quote
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Israel must be wiped off the map. View quote
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My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him. View quote
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country. View quote
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights. (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation. View quote
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. View quote
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Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments. View quote
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Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved. View quote
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Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity. View quote
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They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper. View quote
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Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists. View quote
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The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious. View quote
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The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime [Israel], which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast. View quote
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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? (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either. View quote
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We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) View quote
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Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze. View quote
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They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets. The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets, (it) deals very severely with those who deny this myth but does not do anything to those who deny God, religion, and the prophet. If you have burned the Jews, why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel? Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime? View quote
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