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Meet the man who wants nuclear power for Iran and the death of Israel

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Iranian Ayatollah calls for destruction of Israel

After documents and Twitter posts by Iran's supreme leader called for the annihilation of Israel, Israel's Prime Minister said that the world must not be to eager to rush into a deal on Iran's nuclear program, despite the upcoming deadline.

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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
11/11/2014 (1 decade ago)

Published in Middle East

Keywords: Iran, Nuclear energy, Middle East, U.S., U.N., International, Israel

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "There is no moderation in Iran. It is unrepentant, unreformed, it calls for Israel's eradication, it promotes international terrorism," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

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"This terrorist regime in Iran must not be allowed to become a nuclear threshold power. And I call on the P5+1 countries-don't rush into a deal that would let Iran rush to the bomb."

Netanyahu called on the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany to be wary in their dealings with Iran, a nation that is anti-west and known to support and harbor terrorist organizations.

Iran continues to insist that it only wants nuclear energy.

But Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the religious and supreme leader of Iran, continues to call for the destruction of Israel, though he says he opposes "a massacre of the Jewish people in this region."

Khamenei says that he still thinks "armed resistance is the cure," to what he thinks of as the Israel problem.

Just as Iran supports Hamas-the Palestinian militant group in control of the Gaza strip-the Ayatollah believes that the West Bank should also be militarized like Gaza.

A rival faction to Hamas, Fatah, controls the West Bank, and on November 9 it accused Hamas of attack its leaders homes.

The Ayatollah also posted a series of tweet targeting Israel, including one called "9 key questions about elimination of Israel," a new document which goes into detail about the elimination of the Jewish state.

One was a referendum by the "original people of Palestine" including Jews, Christians and Muslims. Those Jews who immigrated to the region would not be allowed to take part.

But it is unclear who Khamenei thinks these native Palestinians are, given the region's history of multiple migration and exile. Muslims were not even present in the region until the 8th and 9th centuries A.D., displacing tens of thousands of Jews and Christians as they conquered the Middle East.

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