Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Israel protest to U.N. over Iranian rhetoric

Israel submitted a letter to the United Nations Security Council protesting recent statements by Iranian leaders against Israel.

The letter pointed out that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that "Zionism is a danger for entire humanity" and that Israel "is a cancerous tumor … in [the] heart of [the] Muslim world." It also quoted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying that the "the very existence of the Zionist regime is … an affront to all world nations" -- and called on "all human communities to wipe out this scarlet letter, meaning the Zionist regime, from the forehead of humanity."
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