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Gordon Brown (PM, Britain)

[White House Press briefing]

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• “Iran is in breach of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran has not told the truth to the international community about what its plans are. And that’s why I’m talking to other European leaders about how we can extend European sanctions against Iran over the next period of time, and to ensure that what sanctions are taken are effectively implemented, and to monitor the effect on the Iranian regime where we see high inflation in Iran, and that is not properly disclosed by the regime, and the effect that sanctions are actually beginning to have on that country.”

Thursday, April 17, 2008

President George Bush

[White House Press briefing]

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• “If they [Iranian leaders] learn how to enrich, it is knowledge which can be used to develop a nuclear weapon. They claim that they have got a civilian program in place – [that] this is only for civilian purposes. If that’s the case, why did they have a secret program?. . . They have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.”

• “And that is why the United States, in working with Britain and France and Germany and the United Nations Security council, is all aiming to say to the Iranians: verifiably suspend your program and there’s a better way forward for you.”

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Tom Casey (U.S. Statae Department spokesperson)

Press briefing

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• “We want to make sure that we’re able to respond in a positive and appropriate way to the threat posed by Iran’s missile program -- whether that winds up being nuclear-armed missiles or conventionally-armed ones. But it’s a real threat to the region; it’s a real threat to anyone who is concerned about a country like Iran, a state sponsor of terror, having and continuing to develop a long-range missile program, along with having a nuclear program that is moving ahead and trying to perfect the nuclear fuel cycle”

Monday, April 14, 2008

Stephen Hadley (U.S. National Security Advisor)

[Fox News interview]

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• “They [the Iranians] are training Iraqis in Iran who come into Iraq and attack our forces, Iraqi forces, Iraqi civilians. . . .So we have illegal militia in the southern part of the country that really are acting as criminal elements that are pressing the people down there and, in good measure, as we’ve seen, alienating the Iraqis from Iran.”

Monday, April 14, 2008

Stephen Hadley (National Security Adviser to President Bush)

[Media Interview]

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• "Iran is very active in the southern part of Iraq. They are training Iraqis in Iran who come into Iraq and attack our forces, Iraqi forces, Iraqi civilians. There are movements of equipment. There's movements of funds."

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Condoleezza Rice (Secretary of State)

[After Meeting With German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier]

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• “We have a dual-track approach with Iran. We've obviously offered Iran, I believe, a very good package of incentives to do what it should do, which is to adhere to the international obligations that are there as a result of the Security Council resolutions. We will always continue to consider refreshing both tracks. But this is not the time, I think, to expect major changes. We have just passed the Security Council resolution and we will see how Iran responds.”

Friday, April 11, 2008

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (German Foreign Minister)

[After meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice]

• “Sanctions have been agreed – enhanced sanctions, that is, that are being implemented. All that takes place as part and parcel of a framework of a general approach that includes sanctions on the one hand, but also keeping open chances or opportunities for continued negotiations with Iran, but only, only really, if Iran changes its position and its approach. Right now, we’re talking amongst the Europeans about taking additional sanctions. We have not yet reached agreement on that, but intensive negotiations are going on.”

Friday, April 11, 2008

Ryan Crocker (U.S. Ambassador to Iraq)

[Remarks at joint news conference with Army Gen. David Petraeus in Washington]

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• “We have told the Iraqis that we're prepared to move to another round of direct security talks if the Iraqis think that's a step they want to take… These are trilateral, of course, Iraq, the U.S. and Iran”

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Sean McCormack, ( U.S. State Department spokesperson)

Press briefing

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• ” [U.N Security Council Resolutions] are having an effect on Iran in terms of the economy and opportunity costs for the Iranian economy. . . .Now, certainly, we don’t want to cause any harm or hardship to the Iranian people. That is not our intention. It’s not the intention of the international community. But they have a government that is making these choices on their behalf, and the choices that the government is making for Iran and the Iranian people is costing the Iranian people.”

Tuesday, April 08, 2008