News - Middle East: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has rebuked countries seeking to normalize relations with Israel, stating that “the Zionist regime is perishable”.

“The Islamic Republic's definite position is that the governments that use the normalization gamble with the Zionist regime as a model for themselves will lose and the loss awaits them,” Ayatollah Khamenei said on Tuesday.
“They are making a mistake and, as the Europeans say, they are betting on a losing horse,” he told a group of people, government officials, ambassadors of Islamic countries and guests of an international unity conference in Tehran.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the situation in Israel is not one of the kind to encourage closeness and countries “should not make this mistake”.
“Today, the Palestinian movement is more cheerful than ever in the past seventy and eighty years, and the Palestinian youth and the anti-usurpation, anti-oppression and anti-Zionism movement are more cheerful, more lively, and more ready than ever, as you can see.
“And God willing, this movement will come to fruition, and as the late honorable Imam [Khomeini] described the usurping regime as a cancer, God willing, this cancer will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the resistance forces in the entire region."
Ayatollah Khamenei said Israel holds malice against Muslim countries.
“The Zionist regime is full of hatred and anger, not only towards us, but also other countries. It is not like the Zionist regime is happy with the countries far and around it. They also hate Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
“Why? Because their goal was from the Nile to the Euphrates and this did not happen. These countries did not allow it for different reasons,” Sayyed Khamenei said.
“Well, of course, the Qur'an says, ‘Be angry and die of anger.’ That will be the case. They are dying now and by the grace of God ‘Be angry and die of anger’ is being realized in the case of the Zionist regime,” he added.
Ayatollah Khamenei said hostility towards Islam is more obvious than ever now, citing the desecration of the Holy Qur’an in the West as an example.
“An ignorant idiot insults and a government supports it, which shows that the issue is not just a staged and insulting act,” he said.
“We have nothing to do with that ignorant and oblivious person who condemns himself to the most severe punishments and execution in order to fulfill the objectives of the behind-the-scenes elements. The discussion is about the designers of these crimes and hateful acts.
“They think they can weaken the Qur’an, but they are wrong and they ruin themselves,” Sayyed Khamenei added.