Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks imposed upon our country. We defended ourselves with the utmost strength.

America and Israel attacked us with the latest technology. They hit us, but we didn’t bend the knee.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

We responded, but we did not hit civilian populations.

They came into surrounding territories and targeted our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Israel targets any neighborhood in any city in any province, commits assassinations like a true terrorist.

In Gaza, over 80,000 innocent civilians have been brutally murdered.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

They are committing genocide by using the so-called technologies that they have at their disposal. Then, they label others as terrorists.

Are we the sources of instability? We only seek to live independently.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

For the past two centuries, Iran has not attacked any country or any territory, but we've always defended ourselves steadfastly.

But now, we're being accused of being a source of instability in the region. We're labeled terrorists.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

We don’t wish to use our power for hegemony, and we don’t seek our security in the insecurity of others.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

We will not bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours.

We say it clearly: no nuclear weapons, and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Iran does not see her neighbors as security rivals — we want to have strong neighbors.

In the waters of the Strait of Hormuz, we do not want to impose insecurity. We cannot let some have free access and gain their interest from a waterway, while at the same time using that waterway to impose their aggressions upon us, to impose insecurity upon us, to forbid us access to our own waterways.

They close access for us to our own waterway. They keep supplying missiles and deadly military technologies to bring insecurity to all of the lands surrounding that waterway.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

We cannot speak of peace while ignoring Palestine. Lasting peace in West Asia is impossible without justice for Palestine.

As long as occupation, aggression, and injustice persist in the world, resistance will continue.

If it is weakened in one form, it will re-emerge in others, perhaps stronger still.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Our regional issues must be resolved in the region, at the hands of the countries in the region, without becoming a toy in the hands of outside aggressors.

No relationship with a foreign power can become the tool of threatening neighboring countries in the region.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Iran has never, ever been an aggressor, has never started a war, and has always shown her commitment to the negotiating table.

They imposed the war on us, but we have proven that we're not afraid of fighting a war — one that is defensive in nature — and we will stand in defense of our beloved Iran, our homeland, until our last breath.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, but the inspectors are requested to come to Iran.

Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in Gaza, but Iran, while behind the table of negotiation, was bombed.

Israel has the bombs, has weapons of mass destruction, is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, during her shameful life has not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded by all the means necessary for them to be able to bomb any capital in the region at will.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Israel kills and kills. But Iran is subject to sanctions.

This is a true tragedy, which would make anyone hearing it laugh at best.

They kill, we are sanctioned. We are punished — those who are ill, innocent people, the poor, the least privileged in our society are the targets of these sanctions, and this is what the United States seeks to do with all countries: to sacrifice the population of a country in order to achieve illegitimate goals.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Iran extends her hand towards the world. We invite the world — we call the world — not out of weakness, but out of a deep belief in our own power and steadfastness, to cooperate and collaborate, because of a deep belief that no one in this region will have security alone.

Either we will build it together, or we will have to live under insecurity together.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Trump must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying.

We will never bow our head or bend the knee.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Iran must be understood by Mr. Trump and those who seek to bully us:

That we are ready for dialogue and diplomacy and negotiations, without accepting the language of force.

Marco Rubio:

I think the Iranians are under this illusion that Democrats are going to win in November and Trump will no longer be able to do things against them.

I just don't think they understand our system very well.

Marco Rubio on Cuba:

They have an opportunity to begin to put their country on a irreversible trajectory towards progress and a better future.

That involves both political and economic freedom.

Marco Rubio on Serbia:

Serbia is a strategic partnership that we would like to deepen and intend to do so.

Marco Rubio on Cuba:

Why would I, a businessperson from wherever, invest 10 million dollars in Cuba if two years from now they just decide to take it from me and keep the money?

That’s happened over and over and over again.