Profiles in Cowardice: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Recent Statements from the Iranian President

“Iran’s nuclear issue is over. We will never negotiate Iran’s undeniable rights.” (Sept. 7, 2009)

"If anyone wants to interfere in the nuclear program beyond the law, that path is blocked. From our point of view the nuclear file does not exist…but what exists is the file of animosity." (Sept. 7, 2009)

Iran and Venezuela have “Important missions to help the oppressed and revolutionary nations and to expand the anti-imperialist front in the world. Time has passed for arrogant powers to have influence on revolutionary nations…" (Sept. 6, 2009)

Iran "should have constructive interaction with all nations and countries with the exception of the illegal Zionist entity." (Aug. 30, 2009)

"We are sorry for those countries around us and those neighbors who are at the service of the Zionist and are providing means for Israel's hegemony over the world. They (certain neighbors) don't understand that they are facilitating the Zionists. We hope they could wake up." (Aug. 17, 2009)

"You [Europeans] have clearly interfered in Iran's internal affairs and were naïve enough to think that you can damage the system but with God's help you failed. You (world powers) will be held accountable for this ballyhoo you made in the world" (Aug. 16, 2009)

[On opponents to his election] "They applied the methods of (Josef) Goebbels, propaganda minister of Hitler…They used this method of psychological war against our nation." (June 10, 2009)

"Don't be afraid of those Zionists. They are on the verge of death. Their time has passed. Do not surrender your people to them… Don't you know the nature of the Zionists? Don't you know who the Zionists are? They came in order to take over our region in its entirety. At first, they said that they wanted [a country] from the Nile to the Euphrates. Once they got settled, they said that there had been a mistake, and that they wanted all the Islamic lands…Unless they are put in their place at the very beginning of their conspiracy and fitna, they will jeopardize the security of the whole world, they will jeopardize the security of the whole region… They want the entire world. At their very first step, you must crush their step, crush their leg, so that they do not dare to invade the Islamic lands" (April 22, 2009)