Next: Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad

Quotes from Interviews

• “Iran is very free. It is the highest conceivable degree of freedom. We don’t have a party based system. It is a free government, very close to the people.”
  Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV – January 8, 2010
• “Everybody must obey the law. Protests also have to happen within the limits of the law.”
  Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV – January 8, 2010
• “In our country the law prevails.”
  Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV – January 8, 2010
• “Let me tell you something else which is more important.”
  Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Channel 4 of England’s Jon Snow – December 23, 2009
• “You are making a mistake. And the Western politicians think something is happening in Iran and Iran has become weakened. That is a mistake. They do not know Iran.”
  Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Channel 4 of England’s Jon Snow – December 23, 2009
• “In Iran, the Judiciary is an independent body. It does not make decisions based on political circumstances, nor does it make decisions based on propaganda. It makes decisions based on the framework of law.”
  Katie Couric’s Interview with Ahmadinejad – CBS Evening News – September 29, 2009
• “In Iran, elections are real elections. Really completely popular ones.”
  Charlie Rose Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – September 28, 2009
• “Both the attorneys said that they acted freely and the — basically, the plaintiffs also said that they had enough time to review what they had done and they admitted the mistakes they had done. And actually, the courts were open enough to basically take care of due process of law and allow for the trials to happen.”
  Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King – CNN – September 26, 2009
• “In your own country, does the president have the ability to order a judge what to do? Can he?”
  Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King – CNN – September 26, 2009
• “The situation in the country is a very good condition, Iran is the most stable country in the world and there is the rule of law in this country.”
  Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on CNN and Iran Press TV by Christiane Amanpour – June 14, 2009
• We don’t have execution for homosexuals. Of course we consider it an abhorrent act but it is not punished by capital punishment.”
  Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman Interviews Ahmadinejad – September 26, 2008
• “People are free to do what they like in their private realms. But nobody can engage in what breaks the law in public.”
  Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman Interviews Ahmadinejad – September 26, 2008
• “In Iran expressing ones points of view is permissible, it’s free and if a person has an opinion to express within the confines of the law they are free to express such opinions.”
  Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Ann Curry of NBC News – September 18, 2008

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