Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.

The growing menace of violent extremism and outright barbarism is our common threat today.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

I can in one week assemble five hundred faithful ready to throw themselves into suicide operations. No frontier will stop them.

Terrorists are trained in Syria, and weapons come from Iran and Syria, and I believe that's something that should be stopped.

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the terrorist threat to Britain is clearly just intellectually unsustainable.

I want to see ISIS destroyed.

Around the continent, governments worry that indigenous groups are fertile ground for extremist, terrorist groups. We are trying to make sure that doesn't happen here.

Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.