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Excerpts from Ayatollah Khamenei Speech: 20 November 2013

Excerpts from Ayatollah Khamenei Speech: 20 November 2013

Following are excerpts about Israel from a speech (20 Nov.) by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to 50,000 Iranian paramilitary militia Basij commanders in Tehran's Grand Prayer site. The speech was broadcast live by Iranian IV and radio:

“It is heard sometimes, [from] the enemies of the Iranian nation, like from the mouth of the malevolent, untouchable rabid dog of the region, the Zionist regime. They move their chins [saying] that Iran is a threat to the entire world. No. This is a saying of the enemy and exactly the opposite point to an Islamic origin [what is said originally in Islam]. The threat to the entire world are those forces of evil and evil-creators who have shown of themselves nothing but evil, such as this fake regime of Israel and some of its supporters.”

“The Zionist regime is actually a regime that its foundations are very weak. The Zionist regime is destined for deterioration [to vanish]. This regime is a regime that was imposed, was created by force, and a phenomenon that was created by force is not viable. The support of those individuals, who are in a way indebted to the Zionist regime, for this regime is a source of shame and disrespect for them. Some of the Europeans also, unfortunately, lip out [falsely flatter] and go to the leaders of the Zionist regime, those who cannot be even referred to as human beings and are actually wild animals, and humiliate themselves and sanction [harm and isolate] their own people.”

ENDS

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