The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land” “The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. Unfortunately over the past 300 years, the world of Islam has been in retreat,” he lamented. His tone represents a major change from that of former president Mohammad Khatami, whose favoured topic was “dialogue among civilisations” and who led an effort to improve Iran’s relations with the West.īut Ahmadinejad instead spoke of a “historic war”. “Any leaders in the Islamic umma who recognise Israel face the wrath of their own people.”Īhmadinejad, a veteran of Iran’s hardline Revolutionary Guards, took office in August after scoring a landslide win in a June presidential election. “Anyone who signs a treaty which recognises the entity of Israel means he has signed the surrender of the Muslim world,” Ahmadinejad said. “We should not settle for a piece of land,” he said of Israel’s pullout from the Gaza Strip. The term “oppressor” is used by the clerical government to refer to the United States. “The Islamic umma (community) will not allow its historic enemy to live in its heartland,” he said in the fiery speech that centred on a “historic war between the oppressor and the world of Islam”. Khatami was in favour of ‘dialogue among civilisations’ His comments were the first time in years that such a high-ranking Iranian official has called for Israel’s eradication, even though such slogans are still regularly used at government rallies.Īddressing about 4000 students gathered in an Interior Ministry conference hall, Ahmadinejad also called for Palestinian unity, resistance and a point “where the annihilation of the Zionist regime will come”. “As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayat Allah Khomeini. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land,” he said.
“The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world,” the president told a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled The World without Zionism.
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