We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.

I don't believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

That's the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.