[1] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the limelight at the annual meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO) by calling on the group to unite against other countries as his nation faces criticism over its nuclear programme.

[2] Despite a deep historical enmity between Iran's Persian Shiite population and the predominantly Sunni population of its ethnically diverse Arab, Turkish and Pakistani Neighbors, the largest percentage of people of these countries favor accepting a nuclear-armed Iran over any American military action.

[3] An attack on Iran would effectively launch World War III.

[4] Xin đọc thêm chi tiết trong bài Quan Hệ Mỹ-Iran: Duyên hay Nợ, 23-3-2008, Nguyễn Trường, vietsciences.free.fr

[5] Iran shares a common view with Arab countries on the most important Islamic-Arabic issue, namely the issue of Palestine.

[6] ...had the Iranians not to build nuclear weapons, they would be crazy.

[7] For a major oil producer such as Iran, nuclear energy is a wasteful use of resources.

[8] Introduction of nuclear power will provide for the growing needs of Iran's economy and free remaining oil reserves for export or conversion to petrochemicals.

[9] They were an allied country.

[10] In 1976, the Ford administration "endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium - the two pathways to a nuclear bomb.

[11] ...an agenda for a diplomatic process that was intended to resolve on a comprehensive basis all of the biliteral differences between the United States and Iran.

[12] ...weapons of mass destruction, a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the future of Lebanon's Hezbollah organization and cooperation with the UN nuclear safeguards agency.

[13] Xin xem thêm bài "Quan Hệ Mỹ-Iran: Duyên hay Nợ", Nguyễn Trường, 23-3-2008, vietsciences.free.fr

[14] Xem Larijani, interview on French radio, 16-2-2006. Press release, Chính Phủ Iran, 17-2-2006. Xem thêm Gareth et al., "Iran raises hopes of nuclear settlement", Financial Times, 12-2-2007.

[15] There is no military solution to this situation. It is inconceivable. The only durable solution is a negociated solution.

[16] La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.

[17] ...statements by President Obama who made his most critical remarks of the Iranian leadership on Friday [26-6-2009] when he called the government's crackdown outrageous.

[18] The prospects of a dialogue with Iran had been dampened.

[19] Washington's stance could imperil Mr Obama's aim of improving relations.

[20] Didn't he say that he was after change? Why did he interfere?