“The Islamic Republic [Iran] is the only Islamic-based system governed by Islam, and the Zionists don’t dare attack us because of Hezbollah and Hamas’s strong base in the region.”
-February 22, 2019 speaking after Friday prayers 

(Appropriate revenge for the assassination of Hezbollah’s former military chief Imad Mughniyeh is) “not launching one missile or killing one person, but the dismantling and uprooting of the baby-killing Zionist regime.”
-February 15, 2018 at a ceremony marking the 10-year anniversary of former Hezbollah military chief Imad Mughniyeh’s assassination

“Martyrdom for Palestine is the wish of any honorable Muslim.”
-July 30, 2014 in a letter condemning Israel’s conduct in the summer 2014 conflict with Gaza

“We will persist with victory until the land, the sky and the sea turn into hell for Zionists. The murderers and the mercenaries must know that we will not stop defending the resistance, not even for a moment.”
-July 30, 2014 in a letter condemning Israel’s conduct in the summer 2014 conflict with Gaza

“Damn those who have done you injustice and continue to do so. Damn any oppressor who has supported and continues to support this criminal regime (Israel), especially America, which leads this tyranny.”
-July 30, 2014 in a letter condemning Israel’s conduct in the summer 2014 conflict with Gaza

“Wahhabism has its roots in Judaism and they are called ISIS, which destroyed two Muslim countries in the region and destroyed 3,000 mosques and killed hundreds of thousands.”
- February 22, 2019 speaking after Friday prayers

Saudi Arabia has foreign currency reserves to the tune of $1,000 billion. But today, there is a powerful movement that is based on Islam, which has confronted this financial power—this bank full of money—and has defeated it. They have operated for four years and have spent billions of dollars against the poor and oppressed [Houthi] Ansar Allah organization, but they are paralyzed, despite all their financial coalitions.
-February 22, 2019 speaking after Friday prayers

“The influence of Saudi money has infiltrated Pakistan. Along with behind-the-scenes involvement of the Zionist regime and Wahhabism, their goal is to shatter Pakistan to smithereens. The Pakistani army must not let this happen.”
- February 22, 2019 speaking after Friday prayers

“On the basis of the Islam created by Imam [Khomeini] through his revolution, a blessed and valuable creature was born in Lebanon: Hezbollah.
-February 22, 2019 speaking after Friday prayers

“You (the U.S.) know our power in the region and our capabilities in asymmetric war. We will act and we will work…We are near you, where you can't even imagine." 
-July 26, 2018 in a speech in the Iranian city of Hamedan

“The Syrian Army is useless! … Give me one brigade of the Basij, and I could conquer the whole country.”
-2012, attributed to Soleimani by an Iraqi politician

“Dear General Petraeus, you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and Afghanistan. And indeed, the ambassador in Baghdad is a Quds Force member. The individual who’s going to replace him is a Quds Force member.”
-2008, text message reportedly sent by Soleimani to then-Iraqi President Jalal Talabani conveying a message to U.S. General David Petraeus 

“We in Iran know how to deal with protests. This happened in Iran and we got it under control.”
-October 2019, speaking at a secret gathering of Iraqi officials. Soleimani was dispatched to Iraq to orchestrate the suppression of a protest movement opposed to Iranian meddling.

“If the world of Islam feels that it possesses a powerful deterrence today, it is due to the existence of two important, strong and Islamic-based forces created in Lebanon and in Palestine: Hezbollah and Islamic movements like Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and the rest of the Palestinian Islamic groups.”
- February 22, 2019 speaking after Friday prayers

“I should kiss the hand of the great sayyid Hassan Nasrallah.”
-July 10, 2017 in a speech commemorating a Quds Force officer killed in Iraq.

“We no longer see the effects of the Baath party in the Iraqi army, and this army is moving toward a national Islamic-national army and a hezbollahi army.”
-July 10, 2017 in a speech commemorating a Quds Force officer killed in Iraq. This statement is an exaggerated boast about increased Iranian influence within the Iraqi armed forces.