Leader: Hamas upended US agenda in region
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Hamas’ historic Operation Al-Aqsa Storm was mainly against the Zionist regime but was able to disrupt American policies in the region and will hopefully erase the “agenda”.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with hundreds of members of Iran’s Basij volunteer forces in Tehran on Wednesday on the occasion of National Basij Week, Press TV reported.
He said the United States failed to hatch its plots for the formation of a “New Middle East,” adding that the so-called “two-state solution” in the Palestinian territories was part of the same hostile policy that failed miserably.
“In the case of Lebanon, Americans said they are after the formation of a new Middle East. They said that they want to give this region a new political and geographical map based on the US’s illegitimate needs and interests,” the Leader said.
“Of course, what they sought did not happen. On their new map, they intended to destroy Hezbollah, but Hezbollah became 10 times stronger. They wanted to devour Iraq, but they failed. They wanted to take over Syria. So, they inflicted their proxies under the names of Daesh and al-Nusra on the Syrian government, and for seven to ten years, they continuously supported and provided them with money and equipment, but again they failed,” the Leader added.
Underlining that Western plots against the region had entirely fallen flat, the Leader said, “One of the components of this New Middle East was to finalize the Palestinian issue in favor of the usurping Israeli regime so that nothing called Palestine would be left at all. They reneged on the treacherous ‘two-state’ solution that they had earlier approved.”
He also underlined, “The Islamic Republic believes in a referendum in Palestine that reflects the opinion of the Palestinian public. The Islamic Republic is not of the view of throwing Zionists and Jews into the sea.”
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the issue of Palestine is moving towards resolution, which secures Palestinian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“There are several million Palestinians. They can express their opinion, which is a globally-favored, acceptable, and civilized logic for the administration of Palestine,” he added.
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the Israeli atrocities in Gaza disgraced not only the Israeli regime but also the United States, certain European countries, and Western culture and civilization.
“When 5,000 children were killed with phosphorus bombs, the regime of a certain Western country said Israel was defending itself. Is this self-defense? This is Western culture, which has been discredited,” he added.
The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution said the Israeli atrocities in Gaza over the past 50 days epitomize the regime’s decades-long crimes against Palestinians.
“The tragedies of the last 50 days are a small part of the 75-year-long crimes of the Zionist regime in Palestine,” Ayatollah Khamenei noted.
“Operation Al-Aqsa Storm will not run out of steam, and they should know that the current situation will not continue.”