Yukiya Amano Quotes

Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

It is clear that the original idea of the Iranians [to produce nuclear weapons] has been stopped by this agreement.

I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

There's an abiding interest by the United States, by the American people, and by anybody with his eyes set in his head, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Am I not correct in saying that Iran has never voiced that they are developing a nuclear weapon, nor do they have any intention of using a nuclear weapon against the United States? That's never actually been voiced. I don't know where that has come from, but it hasn't been from Iran.

The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

We're simply trying to say that Congress has a constitutional role to approve any deal, to make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Not today, not tomorrow, not ten years from now.

The Iran deal was working. As a solution to the problem of Iran developing nuclear weapons, it was actually working quite well.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.

The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here.

The biggest problem that we have on the face of the planet is Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

Ladies and gentlemen, the relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb. The relevant question is at what stage can we no longer stop Iran from getting the bomb.

Iran has never, is not, and will never seek nuclear weapons.

Israel has said many times - and I also said this to German television in an interview - that we will not be the first country that introduces nuclear weapons to the Middle East.

Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran has every intention to build a nuclear weapon.