Just to be clear, regime change in Iran is not American policy. But what we want is massive change in the regime's behaviour.—John Bolton, US national security adviser

NEVER EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKE OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE."—President Trump, addressing Rouhani of Iran in a tweet

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. —Mahatma Gandhi

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. —Abraham Lincoln

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. —Naomi Klein

World-Cup in Russia has one major flaw: Iranian players can’t easily seek asylum.—Me

Fundamentalism has given an aim and a form to the otherwise aimless and formless resentment and anger of the Muslim masses at the forces that have devalued their traditional values and loyalties and, in the final analysis, robbed them of their beliefs, their aspirations, their dignity, and to an increasing extent even their livelihood.—Bernard Lewis, 1916-2018

Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anyone tell you it's white or black; Christ belongs to all people.—Billy Graham, 1973, South Africa

We are neither soothsayers nor fortune-tellers. Nevertheless, this may prove to be the last war that transforms the region, changing its states, its borders, and perhaps its populations as well. The Arabs and Iranians will certainly survive such a cataclysm. But can Israel in its current form survive it too?—Abdel Bari Atwan- رأی الیوم

When his position permits a man to do all that anger prompts, general destruction is let loose.—Seneca