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Every verified statement attributed to a politician or party in the dataset. Each carries a year, the context, and at least one source citation. The same corpus drives the Who-said-it game and the "On the record" sections on entity pages.

A new war is in nobody's interest. Certainly not in ours. Who wants to face a nuclear power with four kalashnikovs?

Yahya Sinwar · 2018 October 2018 interview with Francesca Borri of La Repubblica from inside Gaza — the first sit-down with a Western journalist by the newly installed Hamas leader in the Strip. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we would follow suit as soon as possible.

Mohammed bin Salman · 2018 A 60 Minutes interview with Norah O'Donnell, aired 19 Mar 2018, ahead of a first official US visit as Crown Prince — on the Saudi response to Iran's nuclear program. Sources: cbsnews.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
I believe the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good.

Mohammed bin Salman · 2018 An April 2018 interview drawing a maximalist historical analogy for the rivalry with Tehran, during a high-profile tour of the United States. Sources: theatlantic.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■□□□
What happened in the last 30 years is not Saudi Arabia. What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries.

Mohammed bin Salman · 2018 April 2018 interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic — the most-cited framing of the modernisation thesis underlying Vision 2030. Sources: theatlantic.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
If Iran develops a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.

Mohammed bin Salman · 2018 CBS 60 Minutes interview with Norah O'Donnell, defining the Kingdom's posture toward Iranian nuclear development. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■□□□
May your house be destroyed.

يخرب بيتك.

Mahmoud Abbas · 2018 January 14 2018 PLO Central Council address — an Arabic colloquial curse directed at the US president after the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, broadcast live across regional networks. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
I declare my resignation from the premiership of the Lebanese government, knowing well the will of the late prime minister, the martyr Rafik Hariri, to confront this evil.

أعلن استقالتي من رئاسة الحكومة اللبنانية، وأنا أعلم تماماً إرادة الراحل رئيس الحكومة الشهيد رفيق الحريري في مواجهة هذا الشر.

Saad Hariri · 2017 November 4 2017 televised statement from Riyadh that triggered a regional crisis — the prime minister of one country resigning live on the channel of another, while clearly under duress. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
We are open to dialogue with our neighbours to resolve all outstanding issues, but we will not accept any infringement on our sovereignty.

إننا منفتحون على الحوار مع جيراننا لحل كل القضايا العالقة، لكننا لن نقبل أي مساس بسيادتنا.

Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · 2017 July 21 2017 televised address from Doha, six weeks into the Saudi-led blockade — the response to the thirteen demands delivered through Kuwait. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
We are returning to what we were before — a country of moderate Islam open to all religions and to the world.

Mohammed bin Salman · 2017 2017 Future Investment Initiative ("Davos in the desert") in Riyadh — the speech that introduced Vision 2030 to a global investor audience. Sources: theguardian.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
At the heart of these lies armed resistance, which is regarded as the strategic choice for protecting the principles and the rights of the Palestinian people.

Hamas · 2017 Article 25 of the Hamas 2017 Document — codifies armed resistance as the strategic, not tactical, foundation of the movement. Sources: jewishvirtuallibrary.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Hamas · 2017 Article 20 of the Hamas 2017 Document of General Principles and Policies — the maximalist territorial framing that sits alongside the 1967-borders "national consensus formula" in the same paragraph. Sources: jewishvirtuallibrary.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■□□□
Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, to be a formula of national consensus.

Hamas · 2017 Article 20 of the Hamas 2017 Document — the 1967-borders pragmatic clause inside the same article as the river-to-sea framing. Sources: jewishvirtuallibrary.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
The hand of peace is still extended through the Arab Peace Initiative.

يد السلام ما زالت ممدودة عبر مبادرة السلام العربية.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi · 2016 Egyptian presidential address to the UN General Assembly 71st session, 20 September 2016 — restating Egyptian endorsement of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative as the framework for normalisation conditional on a Palestinian state. Sources: almasryalyoum.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
The Egyptian experience is wonderful and unique, and can be replicated to solve the Palestinian cause and establish a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state.

التجربة المصرية تجربة رائعة ومتفردة ويمكن تكرارها مرة أخرى لحل القضية الفلسطينية وإنشاء دولة فلسطينية بجانب دولة إسرائيلية.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi · 2016 Egyptian presidential address to the UN General Assembly 71st session, 20 September 2016 — invoking Camp David as a model for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, in a direct appeal to the Israeli public. Sources: almasryalyoum.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
The Arab-Israeli conflict remains the heart of instability in the Middle East.

ما زال الصراع العربي/الإسرائيلي جوهر عدم الاستقرار في الشرق الأوسط.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi · 2016 Egyptian presidential address to the UN General Assembly 71st session, 20 September 2016 — restating the Mubarak-era Egyptian diplomatic position that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the regional first-order problem. Sources: almasryalyoum.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
I dedicate this victory to the martyrs of Tunisia. The Tunisian people have chosen the path of dialogue and consensus.

أهدي هذا النصر إلى شهداء تونس. لقد اختار الشعب التونسي طريق الحوار والتوافق.

Beji Caid Essebsi · 2014 December 22 2014 victory address after winning the country's first post-revolution direct presidential election, defeating interim president Moncef Marzouki in the runoff. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
Morocco is in its Sahara, and the Sahara is in its Morocco — and it shall remain so until the end of time.

إن المغرب في صحرائه، والصحراء في مغربها، وستظل كذلك إلى أبد الآبدين.

King Mohammed VI · 2014 Royal address marking the 39th anniversary of the Green March, restating the position on Western Sahara that the throne has maintained since the 1975 march. Sources: maroc.ma · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists in defense of their country, their people, and their holy places must volunteer to join the security forces.

إنّ على المواطنين القادرين على حمل السلاح وقتال الإرهابيين دفاعاً عن بلدهم وشعبهم ومقدّساتهم أن يتطوّعوا للانضمام إلى القوّات الأمنيّة.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani · 2014 Sistani's fatwa, delivered in Karbala on 13 June 2014, that mobilized the Hashd al-Sha'abi against ISIS — arguably the single most consequential sentence in 21st-century Iraqi politics. Sources: aljazeera.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
Israel has chosen to make it a year of a new war of genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people.

Mahmoud Abbas · 2014 United Nations General Assembly address weeks after the end of the 2014 Gaza war — the moment Palestinian leadership escalated its framing of Israeli military operations to invoke the genocide convention. Sources: un.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
If the price of preserving legitimacy is my blood, then I am prepared to sacrifice my blood for the sake of this homeland and its legitimacy.

إن كان ثمن الحفاظ على الشرعية هو دمي، فإنني مستعد للتضحية بدمي في سبيل هذا الوطن وشرعيته.

Mohamed Morsi · 2013 Final televised presidential address on 2 July 2013 — the night before the military deposed him — defending the legitimacy of the ballot box. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
Egypt is at a crossroads. Either we cross it together to safety, or we go to a state of failure — God forbid.

مصر على مفترق طرق، إما أن نعبر به سوياً إلى بر الأمان وإما أن نذهب لحالة من الفشل لا قدر الله.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi · 2013 2013 mass-mobilization call (July 24 speech) asking Egyptians for a "mandate" to confront protests by Morsi supporters. The framing of the country as "at a crossroads" became a signature rhetorical device. Sources: britannica.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■■□
I am a Syrian, I'm made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

Bashar al-Assad · 2013 2013 BBC interview with Jeremy Bowen during the Syrian civil war. Pushback against international pressure for him to step down or accept exile. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■□□□
We are committed to what we have signed on.

Mohamed Morsi · 2012 Egyptian president's address to the UN General Assembly 67th session, 26 September 2012 — implicit affirmation of continued adherence to the Camp David peace treaty. Sources: voltairenet.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
I assure you of Egypt's full support to any course of action Palestine decides to follow in the United Nations.

Mohamed Morsi · 2012 Egyptian president's address to the UN General Assembly 67th session, 26 September 2012 — explicit endorsement of Palestinian sovereignty-bid diplomacy. Sources: voltairenet.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
Democracy is not a Western invention; it is a universal human value.

الديمقراطية ليست اختراعاً غربياً، بل قيمة إنسانية كونية.

Rached Ghannouchi · 2012 Frequent framing across post-2011 public commentary defending an electoral-Islamist commitment to participating in Tunisian competitive politics rather than imposing a single-party project. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■■□
I have come to Gaza, and I say from Gaza, with Gaza, and to Gaza: there is no compromise on Palestine, from the river to the sea, from the north to the south.

لقد جئت إلى غزة، وأقول من غزة ومع غزة وإلى غزة: لا تفريط في فلسطين، من النهر إلى البحر، من الشمال إلى الجنوب.

Khaled Meshaal · 2012 December 8 2012 address at Gaza's Katiba Square, the speaker's first visit to the strip in over four decades, days after the November 2012 Israel-Hamas escalation. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
Red lines don't lead to war; red lines prevent war.

Benjamin Netanyahu · 2012 UN General Assembly, 27 Sep 2012. The cartoon-bomb speech: Netanyahu drew a red line on a literal cartoon bomb to argue Iran must be stopped before reaching the final stage of weapons-grade uranium enrichment. Became one of the most-circulated UN moments of the decade. Sources: gov.il Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
Our brothers and sisters in Palestine must also taste the fruits of freedom and dignity.

Mohamed Morsi · 2012 Egyptian president's address to the UN General Assembly 67th session, 26 September 2012 — Egypt's first post-revolution Islamist-presidential UN speech. Sources: voltairenet.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
All my people love me. They would die to protect me.

Muammar Gaddafi · 2011 A February 2011 interview with foreign correspondents in Tripoli, denying that any popular uprising was taking place. Sources: en.wikiquote.org Tier 3 — English secondary ■■□□□
I will die on Egyptian soil.

سأحيا على هذه الأرض ساعاتي الأخيرة وسأموت في ترابها.

Hosni Mubarak · 2011 Defiant televised address on the eighth day of the Tahrir Square uprising in February 2011, rejecting calls to resign while pledging not to seek another term. The line went unhonoured ten days later. Sources: en.wikiquote.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■□□□□
No solution to the Yemeni crisis is acceptable, regardless of its conditions, if it does not provide for the prosecution of Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides.

لا يُقبَل أيّ حلّ للأزمة اليمنيّة، مهما كانت شروطه، ما لم يضمن محاكمة عليّ عبدالله صالح ومعاونيه.

Tawakkol Karman · 2011 Tawakkol Karman in her Nobel Peace Lecture, Oslo — refusing the GCC initiative's immunity-from-prosecution clause for Saleh. Sources: nobelprize.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■■□
I will cleanse Libya inch by inch, house by house, alley by alley, person by person.

سأنظف ليبيا شبراً شبراً، بيتاً بيتاً، زنقة زنقة، فرداً فرداً.

Muammar Gaddafi · 2011 February 22 2011 broadcast from a bombed-out Bab al-Azizia compound vowing extermination of the protest movement. The Libyan dialect word "zenga" (alley) gave the address its colloquial name. Sources: bbc.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■□□□□
Syria is not Tunisia, Egypt or Yemen.

سوريا ليست تونس ولا مصر ولا اليمن.

Bashar al-Assad · 2011 Address to the Syrian parliament dismissing the Arab Spring as a foreign conspiracy and rejecting protester demands — the rhetorical moment that signalled the regime would not concede. Sources: nytimes.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
I will not run again. I have served Egypt for 30 years. My son will not run either. The decision is up to the people.

لن أترشح مرة أخرى. لقد خدمت مصر ثلاثين عاماً. وابني لن يترشح. القرار للشعب.

Hosni Mubarak · 2011 February 1 2011 second televised address during the Tahrir Square uprising — the speech in which the speaker tried to defuse the crisis with a partial concession on succession. Sources: en.wikiquote.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
I have understood you. I understand all of you — the unemployed, those in need, the politicians and those who demand more freedom. I understand all of you.

فهمتكم. فهمتكم جميعاً، العاطلون عن العمل والمحتاجون والسياسيون والذين يطالبون بمزيد من الحرية. فهمتكم جميعاً.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali · 2011 January 13 2011 televised address — the day before the speaker fled the country — promising not to run for re-election and to lift internet restrictions. Sources: lemonde.fr · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
There will be rivers of blood. The Libyan people will not be defeated. We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet.

سوف تجري أنهار من الدماء، والشعب الليبي لن يهزم، وسنقاتل حتى آخر رجل وحتى آخر امرأة وحتى آخر رصاصة.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi · 2011 Televised address on the sixth day of the Libyan uprising — a speech that explicitly threatened civil war within hours of mass defections in Benghazi. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□

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