Barack Obama Quotes

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

I support the right of Iran and of any Arab country to have nuclear weapons. This is our right, brothers…. if any Arab country had nuclear weapons at any point in history, America and Israel would have never dared to do what they are doing to the entire Arab nation.

Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East. But it could be brought here.

My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

Iran sees India, China, Pakistan and, allegedly, Israel around them with nuclear weapons.

I agree that a nuclear Iran is extremely dangerous, and I believe that it must be prevented.

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

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

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.

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

This Arab Islamic nation must obtain a nuclear bomb. Without a nuclear bomb, we will continue to be oppressed.

Any possession of nuclear weapons in the Middle East is a danger.

Israel’s development of nuclear capability would be a cause for war, no matter how suicidal it would be for us.

There is going to be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. And you are going to see it in Egypt, in Turkey, in the Emirates. All of those people will want that.

The world cannot afford a nuclear Iran.

We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.