Gaza brought armed-to-teeth Israeli regime to its knees: Leader
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Gaza brought Israel “to its knees” after the regime was forced to accept conditions proposed by Hamas resistance group for a cease-fire deal in the besieged Palestinian territory.
“The small, limited Gaza brought the Zionist regime, armed to the teeth, and fully supported by America, to its knees,” Ayatollah Khamenei said on Tuesday while addressing a group of Iranian officials and ambassadors of Muslim countries in the capital Tehran.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the resistance front in the region, which began with the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, has awakened Muslim and non-Muslin countries, stressing that the kneeling of the Israeli regime is the result of the same resistance.
Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire agreement on January 15 which came into effect on January 19 after 15 months of war.
The deal aims to bring a permanent end to the fighting and free captives held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Since the beginning of the cease-fire several Israeli captives and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have been released.
The Leader described the US’s award for the commander of the missile cruiser that shot down an Iranian passenger plane in 1988 and Congress’ standing ovation for murderer of thousands of Gaza children (Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu) as examples of the enemies’ “evil nature and their enmities and grudges which are hidden behind the smiles of diplomacy.”
He called for vigilance in global contacts, saying, “We must watch out who we are dealing with, and with whom we are making a deal or negotiate.”