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IRAN LEADER: ISRAEL WILL BE ANNIHILATED
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on
Friday and said it was "heading toward annihilation," just days after Tehran
raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched
uranium for the first time.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the
Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again
question whether the Holocaust really happened.
"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation,"
Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the
Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be
eliminated by one storm."
Ahmadinejad provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be
"wiped off the map."
On Friday, he repeated his previous line on the Holocaust, saying: "If such
a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price? Why
does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land
occupied?"
The land of Palestine, he said, referring to the British mandated territory
that includes all of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, "will be freed
soon."
He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of
at least 900 people: "Believe that Palestine will be freed soon."
"The existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle
East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."
The three-day conference on Palestine is being attended by officials of
Hamas, the ruling party in the Palestinian territories.
Iran has previously said it will give money to the Palestinian Authority
to make up for the withdrawal of donations by Western nations who object to
Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. But no figure has
been published.
On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched
uranium using a battery of 164 centrifuges, a significant step toward the
large-scale production of enriched uranium required for either fueling
nuclear reactors or making nuclear weapons.
The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear
program to secretly build a weapon. Iran denies this, saying its program is
confined to generating electricity.
The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until April 28 to cease enrichment.
But Iran has rejected the demand.
The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, was
quoted Wednesday as saying Iran could develop a nuclear bomb "within three
years, by the end of the decade."
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iran
IRAN LEADER: ISRAEL WILL BE ANNIHILATED
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on
Friday and said it was "heading toward annihilation," just days after Tehran
raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched
uranium for the first time.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the
Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again
question whether the Holocaust really happened.
"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation,"
Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the
Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be
eliminated by one storm."
Ahmadinejad provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be
"wiped off the map."
On Friday, he repeated his previous line on the Holocaust, saying: "If such
a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price? Why
does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land
occupied?"
The land of Palestine, he said, referring to the British mandated territory
that includes all of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, "will be freed
soon."
He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of
at least 900 people: "Believe that Palestine will be freed soon."
"The existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle
East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."
The three-day conference on Palestine is being attended by officials of
Hamas, the ruling party in the Palestinian territories.
Iran has previously said it will give money to the Palestinian Authority
to make up for the withdrawal of donations by Western nations who object to
Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. But no figure has
been published.
On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched
uranium using a battery of 164 centrifuges, a significant step toward the
large-scale production of enriched uranium required for either fueling
nuclear reactors or making nuclear weapons.
The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear
program to secretly build a weapon. Iran denies this, saying its program is
confined to generating electricity.
The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until April 28 to cease enrichment.
But Iran has rejected the demand.
The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, was
quoted Wednesday as saying Iran could develop a nuclear bomb "within three
years, by the end of the decade."
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iran
