Cabinet of Iran

Repression cannot go unanswered. The EU foreign ministers have just taken the crucial step of designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Any regime that kills thousands of its own citizens is working towards its own downfall.

— Kaja Kallas, EU Chief Diplomat, after consultations of the foreign ministers in Brussels.

Iran’s missile programme is non-negotiable because it relates to a defense issue.

— Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister, expresses his stance on the negotiations with the US.

The diplomatic off-ramp remains open. Taking it would require swallowing pride and accepting less-than-total victory.

— Leon Hadar, in an article discussing the US-Iran tensions.

On this trip, we will discuss a series of issues: Gaza, the region, but first and foremost, the negotiations with Iran.

— Benjamin Netanyahu as he boarded his aircraft before departing for Washington.

Europe wants to satisfy its master, namely America, with these measures.

— Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, President of the Iranian Parliament, regarding the EU sanctions against the Revolutionary Guards.

A regime that can only maintain power through sheer violence and terror against its own population has its days numbered.

— Friedrich Merz, at a press conference in Berlin regarding the suppression of protests in Iran.

I have instructed my Minister of Foreign Affairs, provided that a suitable environment exists – one free from threats and unreasonable expectations – to pursue fair and equitable negotiations.

— Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on social media.

The next war might start not in downtown Tehran, but in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.

— Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow with the Washington Institute, on the potential impacts of a conflict in the Persian Gulf.