23 quotes
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Better that he take risks than that he ends up a shrinking violet like Ahmad Shah Qajar.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a reservoir of oil and money.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
If [the British] have the fucking audacity to advise me ever again, I shall fuck them so rigid that they'll think twice before crossing my path in future.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
... the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.
Attributed Asadollah Alam (1991)