IRAN-TEHRAN: ISRAEL MOVES CLOSER TOWARDS "DISAPPEARANCE"

‘Israel Sliding to Disappearance’
Agence France Presse

TEHRAN, 3 December 2006 — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh that Israel is sliding toward disappearance, Iranian media reported yesterday.

“The Zionist regime is on the slope of disappearance and the freedom movement and the struggles of the Palestinian people have more success every day,” Ahmadinejad told Haniyeh on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Doha on Friday.

Neither Iran nor Haniyeh’s ruling Islamist Hamas faction recognize Israel.

“It is the religious duty of all Muslims to stand by the Palestinians,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official IRNA agency. “The continued crimes of the Zionist regime will only accelerate the downfall of this fake regime.” Ahmadinejad, who has prompted international anger by dismissing the Holocaust as a “myth” used to justify the creation of Israel, added: “This regime was created in order to make tension in the region and to carry out the policies of the US and Britain.”

Haniyeh, whose government is internationally boycotted over its refusal to lay down arms, recognize Israel and abide by earlier peace agreements, is on his first foreign tour since taking power in January, with Tehran reportedly one of his destinations.


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