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Zionism ‘gravest threat’ to dignity of Jewish people: Zarif
“Aggressive Zionism is nothing but an expansionist secular movement, deceitfully using Judaism to advance its colonial and racist agenda. It abuses the memories and blood of Jewish victims of the Holocaust who perished during World War II, while Zionism itself is nothing but racism, chauvinism, militarism, terrorism, expansionism, apartheid, and hatred against other nations and religions”, Zarif said in a rare video message directed at Jewish people across the world.
He said that the Zionism “uses the name of the Lord in vain to justify genocide, adding that the Jewish people are the victims of Zionist assault on their faith and identity.
Referring to Israel’s ongoing genocidal wars against Palestinians and Lebanese, the Iranian official said Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with his Western supporters, “have unleashed the machinery of death and destruction in the region, causing carnage and crimes against humanity in a genocidal campaign that has murdered over 50,000 civilians, including over 10,000 children.”
Zarif also accused Netanyahu of killing the 2015 Iran nuclear deal which he said could have been the foundation of a new era of peace, tranquility and regional cooperation.