Tuesday, February 21, 2006

IRIB: "Hamas will never recognize Israel"

From Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting:
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday in a meeting with Head of the Political Office of Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, Khalid Mashal that the Palestinians now have the strongest position in the Middle East peace process.

Ahmadinejad stressed, "today the Palestinian nation's will is the greatest power in the Middle East and by voting in favor of Hamas the Palestinians emphasized their ideal of resistance till the liberation of their country and the enemies can not confront that will."

Speaking to Dr. Mashal and his accompanying delegation, the IRI President said that the Palestinian nation's support for Hamas is your greatest political asset, adding, "the Palestinians' vote in this election was to the liberation of the entire occupied territories through continuation of resistance and the establishment of an independent Palestinian country."

He said that the victory of Hamas meanwhile reflected the historic will of the Palestinians for choosing a new path and for leading a new type of life, adding, "the Palestinian nation's will annulled the Oslo agreement, the road map project, and all previous plans for Middle East."
That's actually true. A later paragraph features one of Ahmadinejad's bizarre historical distortions:
Emphasizing that the philosophy behind the existence of the Zionist regime has been put under serious question today, Ahmadinejad said, "the occupying regime of holy Qods was established on a sad day when the Muslim nations were unfortunately asleep."
If he is talking about 1948, Israel was attacked by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq.

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