“Anyone who fights America’s aggression, its greediness and its plans to encroach on the Persian Gulf region, has engaged in a holy war in the cause of Allah, and anyone who is killed on that path is a martyr.”“Iran Announces Arrest of American Businessman,” New York Times, November 5, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/05/world/iran-announces-arrest-of-american-businessman.html.

“Even if [Salman Rushdie] repents and becomes the most pious Muslim on earth, there will be no change in this divine decree.”“No Iranian Forgiveness For Salman Rushdie,” Associated Press, December 27, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/27/books/no-iranian-forgiveness-for-salman-rushdie.html.

“We will never permit the United States to make a foothold or turn the region into its zone of influence wherever we are present and have influence and anywhere our words, as the voice of Islam, are heard by Muslims.”Youssef M. Ibrahim, “Confrontation in the Gulf; Resist U.S. in Gulf, Top Iranian Cleric Urges All Muslims,” New York Times, September 13, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/13/world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-resist-us-in-gulf-top-iranian-cleric-urges-all-muslims.html.