You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.

Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.

We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It's cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It's not related to the crisis.

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

In the end a lie is a lie.

America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.