Khamenei: Formation of Palestinian government in Tel Aviv will be achieved

The leader of the Islamic Republic claimed that “the formation of a Palestinian government in Tel Aviv” would be achieved. Khamenei said that “pressure” would not stop supporting “resistance groups.” Israel has said that it is ready to attack Iran if its existence is threatened.

On Monday, December 31, during a meeting with Ziad al-Nakhalah, Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, and his accompanying delegation, Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Republic, said: "The victory of the Palestinian people in recent years has not meant the ability to form a government in Tel Aviv, but of course, this will also be achieved by the grace of God."

The Leader of the Islamic Republic said that Israel "in the two previous wars with resistance groups, at one point it requested a ceasefire after 22 days and at another point after 8 days. In the last conflict, it requested a ceasefire after 48 hours, and this means that the usurping Zionist regime has been brought to its knees."

The Leader of the Islamic Republic, "predicting" that, as he put it, "resistance groups" will have "greater victories" in the future, added that "as long as resistance exists, the process of decline and decline of the Zionist regime will continue."

In the literature of the Islamic Republic, the state of Israel is referred to by titles such as the “Zionist regime” or the “occupying regime.” Resistance groups are also a general term for armed organizations and movements supported by the Islamic Republic that, like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or Hezbollah in Lebanon, have hostile relations with Israel.

In his meeting today with representatives of the Islamic Jihad, Ali Khamenei emphasized that "heavy pressure from the arrogance front" will not cause the Islamic Republic to "give up on supporting Palestine."

According to the information website of the Office of the Leader of the Islamic Republic, then Ziad Al-Nakhalah, Secretary General of Islamic Jihad, “while presenting a report on the latest developments in occupied Palestine and the high capabilities and preparedness of the resistance groups,” claimed: “Today, the capabilities and strength of the Islamic resistance in Palestine are greater than ever before, such that if a war breaks out, Tel Aviv and all the cities and towns of the Zionist regime will be within range of thousands of resistance missiles.”

On June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, justifying the country's military forces' attack on Iranian-backed militia positions in Syria, said that the Islamic Republic was ready to attack Israel by mobilizing 80,000 Shiite fighters in the region.

The issue of Israel and hostile relations with this country is one of the greatest regional and international challenges of the Islamic Republic. Iran’s top political and military officials have repeatedly used threatening language against Israel and spoken of the “annihilation” of this country. On December 15, 2016, Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, said: “First, I tell you that Israel will not see the next 25 years, and second, that during this period, Iran will maintain the spirit of struggle, seriousness, and jihad. You will be worried at all times.”

Ahmad Khatami, however, on Friday, August 21, referring to the improbability of a US war against Iran, said: "The cost of this war for America is monstrous, because certainly if the slightest damage is done to us, not only America will be targeted, but its ally, the Zionist regime, will also be targeted."

Last May, Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, also pointed out that the Islamic Republic had endangered the "existence and survival" of Israel and said that the "children of the Islamic nation" were seeking to destroy this country.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s recent statements that the Islamic Republic has never sought to destroy Israel, but that the country “will destroy itself with the policies it pursues,” have also been met with a strong reaction from forces loyal to Ali Khamenei. On January 22, Kayhan newspaper, whose editor-in-chief is Hossein Shariatmadari, Khamenei’s representative in the organization, considered Zarif’s remarks about Israel to be a “distortion” of the Islamic Republic’s positions, writing: “The destruction of Israel is the official policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” The state-run newspaper also emphasized: “We have written on our long-range missiles that Israel must disappear from the scene of the world.”

On December 11, Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized that "our red line is our survival," and said that if Israel's survival is threatened, the country is ready for any action, including a military attack on Iran.

Source: DW