"Supporters of Iran or affiliates such as Hezbollah or Hamas, they quickly have picked up on the signal that Iranian influence is perhaps not as valuable as Turkish influence."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30