Haider al-Abadi Quotes

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

It is still worth talking to Iran to see if there is a way through and to prevent the huge rivalry between Saudi and Iran turning into another version of the Iran-Iraq war. That is what all countries that have influence have to be thinking about.

Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

We do not want war with Iran.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

Saudi Arabia needs friends. We are in a war in Yemen, in a confrontation with Iran, so we need friends like Canada, Europe.

America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.

Another mess I inherited, and we have imposed new sanctions on the nation of Iran who has totally taken advantage of our previous administration, and they're the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and we're not going to stop until that problem is properly solved, and it's not properly solved now.

Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.

Iraq is not about oil.

What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.