Iran's Ahmadinejad: 'Israel will not last'
Pastor Dale Morgan
Iran's Ahmadinejad: 'Israel will not last'*
TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday
predicted that Israel would not survive, as he lashed out at the
US-hosted conference seeking to relaunch the Middle East peace process.
"It is impossible that the Zionist regime can last," the government
mouthpiece website of state broadcasting quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in
a cabinet meeting.
"Deterioration is in the nature of this regime as it has been built on
aggression, lying, crime and wrongdoing," he added.
He said the meeting uniting Israeli and Palestinian leaders in
Annapolis, Maryland has "failed already and was stillborn. It lacked the
cornerstones of effective political work".
The Islamic republic -- which has made non-recognition of Israel one of
its main ideological themes -- has been left isolated by the attendance
at the meeting of Saudi Arabia and its chief regional ally Syria.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly courted controversy by predicting Israel is
doomed to disappear, most notoriously calling in 2005 for the Jewish
state to be "wiped off the map".