Iran's Plan to Destroy Israel

Iran's Plan to Destroy Israel
By George Thomas
CBN News



TEHRAN, Iran - Ayatollah Ahmad Janati heads the powerful Council of Guardians, a group that has final say on all policy and theological matters in Iran.

His message on this day was that America was trying to destroy Iraq and divide the Muslims of the Middle East.

Janati said, "They {America} are cheaters and liars. They talk about democracy, but behind the scenes they are cheating people. They want to divide people. God, keep these devils away from our lands."

And as usual, at the end of every Friday sermon, there's the mandatory chant:

"Death to America! Death to Israel!"

In the last 15 months those words, particularly "Death to Israel!" have taken on new significance here and around the world.

Since winning the presidential election in June 2005, Iran's hard-line leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel and the death of the Jews.

"The Zionist regime of Israel is like a rotten, dried tree that will be annihilated by one storm," Ahmadinejad said.

Last year, during an anti-Israel conference, Ahmadinejad said that "Israel must be wiped off the map."

Since then, he's made several more remarks. Here's Ahmadinejad in his own words:

"A new Middle East will prevail without the existence of Israel."

"Are they human beings? They (Zionists) are a group of blood-thirsty savages putting all other criminals to shame."

And, Israel is "a regime based on evil that cannot continue, and one day will vanish."

Many fear this radical president is pursuing an Islamic bomb for use on Israel. In the meantime, Ahmadinejad has also called the Holocaust "an overblown fairy tale."

He says that the slaughter of six million Jews by Nazi Germany is a myth. He plans to host a conference in Iran later this fall questioning the evidence of the Holocaust.

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