31 January 2008
Iran's hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched yet another verbal attack on Israel, saying its days were numbered. Ahmadinejad predicted that the "filthy Zionist entity" will fall sooner or later. The Iranian president's latest outburst comes as the Islamist regime in Tehran faces a third round of UN sanctions over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, in defiance of a UN Security resolution.
Ahmadinejad asked the international community in a speech in the city of Bushehr, carried live on the state television, to "abandon the filthy Zionist entity, which has reached the end of the line". He added: “It has lost its reason to be and will sooner or later fall. The ones who still support the criminal Zionists should know that the occupiers' days are numbered."
Tehran considers Israel its enemy number one, along with the United States, and its enmity towards the Jewish state has only increased ever since Ahmadinejad became president in 2005. Ahmadinejad has drawn the wrath of the international community for calling the Jewish state to be wiped off the map and describing the Nazi Holocaust as a "myth".
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