Quotes from Iranian Leaders other than Ahmadinejad, and Two Quotes from Him

Special Section Issue 8, Winter 2011

The threat and INTENT to destroy Israel are rooted deeply and widely in Iranian’s religious-political structure since the rise of the Ayatollah Regime.

Here are quotations from Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Khatami, Mohammad-Ali Jafari, Akbar Hashemi, Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Mohtashami Pur, Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, Manouchehr Mottaki, Yahya Rahim Safavi, and Ahmadinejad.

October 22, 2000	Ali Khamenei	“The countdown for the Zionist regime has begun.”
October 24, 2000	Mohammad Khatami	“If we abide by real legal laws, we should mobilize the whole Islamic World for a sharp confrontation with the Zionist regime… if we abide by the Koran, all of us should mobilize to kill.”
November 23, 2000	Ali Khamenei	“Certainly the region will witness the day when … the destruction of Israel will certainly occur.”
December 14, 2000	Akbar Hashemi	“The Jews [who immigrated to Israel] should expect a ‘reverse exodus,' because one day, the tumor will be removed from the body of the Islamic World, and then millions of Jews who moved there will become homeless again." “If one day, a very important day, of course, the Islamic World will also be equipped with the weapons available to Israel now, the imperialist strategy will reach an impasse, because the employment of even one atomic bomb inside Israel will wipe it off the face of the earth, but [such a bomb] would only do damage to the Islamic World."

January 15, 2001	Ali Khamenei	“…the cancerous tumor called Israel must be uprooted from the region." The foundation of the Islamic regime is opposition to Israel and the perpetual subject of Iran is the elimination of Israel from the region.”
January 29, 2001	Ali Akbar Mohtashami Pur	“The Zionist entity is a dangerous cancerous tumor in the Islamic and Arab body and by means of its tentacles, it threatens world and human peace, therefore it must be uprooted.”
October 30, 2005	Hossein Shariatmadari	“We declare explicitly that we will not be satisfied with anything less than the complete obliteration of the Zionist regime from the political map of the world.”
April 16, 2006	Manouchehr Mottaki	“The Zionist regime along with the multifaceted cooperation of some of the world big powers and the meaningful silence of the Western communities suppressed the most obvious rights of the Palestinian people and committed the worst atrocities in the birth place of religions.” "The genocide of Palestinian people, organized and assassination of Palestinian leaders, destruction of farms, torture of prisoners, Palestine's economic siege, continuing the construction of the Separating Wall and the Jewish settlements, sacrilege on the Muslims sanctities, in particular the Al-Aqsa Mosque, are examples of the crimes committed by the Zionist regime." "Among the Jews there have always been those who killed God’s prophets and who opposed justice and righteousness. Throughout history, this religious group has inflicted the most damage on the human race, while some groups within it engaged in plotting against other nations and ethnic groups to cause cruelty, malice and wickedness." "It was said that they were the source for such deadly diseases as the plague and typhus. This is because the Jews are very filthy people. For a time people also said that they poisoned water wells belonging to Christians and thus killed them."
February 18, 2008	Mohammad-Ali Jafari	“In the near future, we will witness the destruction of the cancerous microbe Israel by the strong and capable hands of the nation of Hizbullah.”
February 23, 2008	Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel	“The countdown has begun for the destruction of the Zionist regime.”
September 26-27, 2008	Yahya Rahim Safavi	"The countdown to the fall of Israel had begun, and in the future, the map of the region will be drawn without it."
August 17, 2010	Ahmadinejad	No "Zionists" were killed in the World Trade Center, according to Ahmadinejad, because "one day earlier they were told not to go to their workplace." "They made up an event, the so-called Holocaust which was later laid as the basis for the innocence of a group."

Source:
Full sources for each of the quotations will be found in the extensive chronology published by GPN in Issue 4 Fall 2010: Yael Stein, Tamar Pileggi, Alex Barnea Burnley (2010). More "Mein Kampf": A Chronology of Statements of Incitement and Hate Language by Ahmadinejad and other Iranian Leaders. GPN Issue 4, Fall 2010.

Please click here to access the above chronology of incitement and hate language. http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/Home/GPNISSUES/Issue4Fall2010/tabid/90/ctl/DisplayArticle/mid/473/aid/143/Default.aspx

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