Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Quotes

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

India is one of the world's largest and most peaceful states with advanced nuclear technologies and has been isolated from the rest of the world on nuclear issues.

On the nuclear issue, the first point is that the entire world must recognize that Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon, nor shall it seek a nuclear weapon.

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

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.

In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

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

Military security and a policy of detente are not contradictory but complementary.

It is not enough just to take this weapon [nuclear bombs] out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.

I have stated publicly, I want the same things for Iran that I want for Brazil. I want them to use and develop their nuclear energy for peaceful means.

My priority is ensuring Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.

Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.

Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is right on the Russian border. Notice, not the Mexican border, the Russian border. And it's serious. He has made various statements moving towards reducing the tensions, accommodating Russian concerns and so on.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.

I argue that for every country to have an independent fuel cycle is the wrong way to go. Because any country which has a complete fuel cycle is a latent nuclear weapons country, in the sense that it is not far from making a nuclear weapon.

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.