Iran‘s Ahmadinejad Calls for the ’Annihilation’ of Israel

Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:25am by
Jason Howerton
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Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/GettyImages)


In his Ramadan speech to ambassadors of Islamic countries, Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seemingly called for the annihilation of
Israel, saying “Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the
annihilation of the Zionist regime in order to pave the way for world
justice and freedom.”
The speech, published on the leader’s website Thursday, was given
ahead of “Qods Day” (Jerusalem Day), an annual Iranian anti-Zionist
event initiated by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the Jerusalem Post reports. Jerusalem Day falls on August 17 this year.
Ahmadinejad said it was the Zionists who were “behind the scene of
the world’s main powers, media, monetary and banking centers.”
“They are the decision makers, to the extent that the presidential
election hopefuls [of the USA] must go and kiss the feet of the Zionists
to ensure their election victory,” he added, most likely referring to
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent trip to Israel.
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Ahmadinejad added that “liberating Palestine” would solve
all the world’s problems, although he did not elaborate on exactly how
that might work.
“Qods Day is not merely a strategic solution for the Palestinian
problem, as it is to be viewed as a key for solving the world problems,”
he said.
He added: “Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the
annihilation of the Zionist regime in order to pave the way for world
justice and freedom.”
The Iranian president also explained that Israel has encouraged “the
dominance of arrogant powers in the region and across the globe” and
that Arab countries like Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Turkey have
been affected by Israel’s “plots.”
Calling for the eradication of Israel is not a first for Ahmadinejad.
In a 2005 speech, the Iranian leader spoke about Israel using a Persian
phrase that translates literally as “wiped off the page of time.”
This is the same leader that said the Holocaust — in which roughly 6 million European Jews were murdered — is a lie.