Jeremy Hunt Quotes

A war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region, and it will reflect very strongly on the rest of the world. For sure, we will not allow any such thing.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.

The whole kind of post-World War I settlement that formed the modern Middle East is in danger of collapsing, and we can - we, the United States, you know, the preeminent power in the world - we can say that we want to ignore that, but how long can we avert our gaze? And how long can we stay out?

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Our mission to defeat ISIS has been slowed down by the need to defend from additional Iranian attacks.

Even when you just hear the word 'Syria,' it packs a lot of political connotations.

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Walland the lifting of the iron curtain, troublespots abound: the Middle East and parts of Africa lack a stable regional security architecture; in east Asia, nationalist tendencies and competing ambitions are threatening peace and stability in the region and beyond.

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

The fall of the Syrian regime is in the interest of America and Israel.

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

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

We don't have much to say about your Arab-Arab border differences such as you have with Kuwait. All we hope is that you solve this quickly.

We are caught in the Middle East in supporting the bad guys in order to get rid of the worse guys.