Hawzah News Agency (Tehran, Iran) - Here are some excerpts from Ayatollah Khamenei's remarks:

Extensive interaction with the world: This is our permanent advice and this is the exact opposite of what our enemies and the global hegemonists are after. We can have vast and extensive interaction with the world. We can both help other nations and governments and we can receive their help. Humanity's social life moves forward like this: it moves forward with cooperation, unanimity, harmony and interaction with the world. Our geography and our numerous resources facilitate this for us.

In the past decade, the officials of the country have thankfully managed to cooperate with the world. Despite the fact that the enemies have always wanted to isolate the people of Iran, the people of Iran have not become isolated. They have cooperated with the world, but at the same time, they have confronted the system of domination and arrogance in a serious manner. They have managed to resist their plots. And of course, the enemy is still busy working. 

August 3, 2017

In global propaganda, they stress this: they complain why some people in the Islamic Republic – sometimes, they mention my name in particular - are opposed to the west and to America. We should not forget what the west has done to us. I am not an advocate of cutting off relations with the west – I will enlarge on this matter later on – and everyone knows this. I was the president for eight years and I have had meetings with these countries and with their presidents. In the present time, this is the same. Today too, one of the items of Mr. President’s guests is to meet with me. And when we speak, we do not swear at each other. We speak and we reach agreements. I am not opposed to establishing relations with the west, but the issue is that we should know who we are dealing with and who the other side is.

March 10, 2016