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Iranian Envoy: Only Resistance, Jihad Can Liberate Palestine

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Beirut Mohammad Fathali strongly condemned the recent Israeli attacks on the Palestinians, and underlined that Palestinians should continue their armed struggle against Tel Aviv.

“No option other than Jihad and resistance of the Palestinians can help liberate Palestine or any other occupied land,” Fathali said on Saturday.

He underlined that the international resolutions which have been issued since the occupation of Palestine in 1948 have merely postponed a decision about the fate of Palestine to future.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will stay beside the Palestinian nation and lays emphasis on the solidarity of all Palestinian groups in confronting the Zionist regime,” the Iranian ambassador said.

In relevant remarks earlier this week, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underlined that Palestinians should continue their armed struggle against Tel Aviv.

“The armed resistance by the Palestinians is the only way to confront Israel,” Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a group of Iranian university students in Tehran on Wednesday night.

The Iranian Supreme Leader noted that criminal acts of wolfish, child-killer Zionist regime in Gaza have revealed its true nature, and said, “Only way to solve this problem is full annihilation and destruction of the Zionist regime.

“We should realize that the truth and reality of the United States is manifested in this approach, and the Iranian nation, too, will show in the International Quds Day with its huge and roaring demonstrations that they are the supporters of the oppressed and the enemies of the oppressors,” added Ayatollah Khamenei.

He noted that as founder of the Islamic Republic late Imam Khomeini used to say “Israel must be annihilated”, but of course the annihilation of Israel, as a true way to resolve the problem, does not mean that the Jews in the region should be evacuated, as for conducting this logical approach there is a practical way that the Islamic Republic has proposed to the international society.

Ayatollah Khamenei said that in accordance with Iran’s proposal, which is a favorable method for the world nations, the people who live there and comprise the true natives of that land should in a referendum announce the preferred political system, adding, “In this way the usurper and forged regime will be practically annihilated.”

“It would be wrong for anyone to assume that if the Gaza missiles would not have existed, the Zionist regime would have come to terms with the Palestinians,” Iran’s Supreme Leader said.

He further noted that in the West Bank where the people’s only weapons are little stones Israel both kills and humiliates the Palestinian people.

Ayatollah Khamenei said that based on such realities “we believe the West Bank, too, should be armed just like Gaza and those who are interested in the fate of the Palestinians must work in this respect so that the pains and miseries of the Palestinian people will be decreased due to their mighty hands and the weakness of the Zionist enemy.”

Israel has been pounding the blockaded Gaza for 19 consecutive days, killing at least 891 people and injuring more than 5,700 others.

According to the UN, 77% of the victims in Gaza are civilians and defenseless people.

Since July 8, Israeli warplanes have been carrying out incessant airstrikes against Gaza.

On July 17, thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion into the densely-populated Gaza Strip.

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“Israel”s annihilation is the only real cure, but that doesn”t mean destroying Jews in this region,” he said in his speech, which was posted on his website.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today called for a referendum canvassing the Arabs and Jews that live in Israel in order to end the “Zionist state”, but said until such a vote could be held, armed resistance was necessary.Khamenei and his predecessor the Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini have called repeatedly over the years for an end to the Jewish state, including through a referendum in the region, where Palestinians are in the majority.

In his first official comments on Israel since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip on July 8, Khamenei reiterated the call.

“There are logical and practical means to this end, which is for people who live and belong there to pick the government of their choice through a referendum. That would be the end of a usurping fake regime,” Khamenei, who has the last word in all matters in Shi’te Muslim Iran, said in a speech to university students in Tehran.

Until then, Khamenei said, “while waiting for an end to this cold-blooded murderous regime, mighty armed resistance is the only way to deal with it.”

Khamenei made clear for the first time that he was talking about the dismantling of the state of Israel, not the death of Jews.

“Israel’s annihilation is the only real cure, but that doesn’t mean destroying Jews in this region,” he said in his speech, which was posted on his website.

Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani is trying to improve ties with Western countries, including the United States, in a public relations war with Israel.

Israel launched its offensive to halt rocket salvoes by Hamas and its allies, which have struggled under an Israeli-Egyptian economic blockade on Gaza and been angered by a crackdown on their supporters in the nearby occupied West Bank.

As of the end of Wednesday, 687 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 32 Israeli soldiers had died in the fighting.

Iran is to mark “International Qods Day,” an annual event falling on the last Friday of Ramadan, with nationwide organised demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israel.