Israel 'a microbe of corruption'- Ahmadinejad
IRAN: Israel is "a microbe of corruption" and Islamic resistance will
"send it to the bottom of hell," Iran's president said Sunday at a
conference attended by top Palestinian militant leaders, Iranian media
reported. "With God's grace and thanks to the Palestinian resistance the
occupying Zionist regime has lost its raison d'ętre," Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said at a Tehran conference in support of the Palestinians.
"Their presence (Israel's) even in one inch of the region's soil
causes threat, crisis and war," the state-run television's website
quoted him as saying.
"The only way to confront them (Israelis) is through the Palestinian
youths' resistance, and that of the regional nations," he told the
two-day conference that closed on Sunday.
"This microbe of corruption is no longer feasible for its masters to
keep.
The European and American people are opposed to Zionism and want an
end to the Zionist thoughts," the ISNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as
saying. The hardline president called for unity among Palestinian groups
to triumph over Israel.
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah
Shallah and the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine - General Command, Ahmed Jibril, all of whom live in exile,
were at the conference, Iranian media said.
"The Palestinian people will not be defeated by Israel, and through
intifada (Palestinian uprising) and resistance will defeat Israel," said
Meshaal, whose group controls the Gaza Strip since June 2007.
Tehran, Monday, AFP |
