Khamenei says Iran, Israel on 'collision course'

The unelected, fire-breathing "Supreme Leader" of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has come clean about the Iranian regimes true intentions about Israel. If we recall his protégé, a certain Ahmabobblehead, said "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time" (depending on whose translation you are to believe). I actually showed, an Iranian work colleague, a phonetic version of Ahmadinejad’s speech and asked him what it meant. His immediate reaction was to wave his hand in contempt and say “wiped away....destroyed”. He then asked me if work for British intelligence.

Let’s take the best case scenario i.e. that Ahmadinejad was referring merely to regime change in Israel. – whatever that is supposed to mean.

Here we have the words of Khameini presumably at Friday prayers:-

TEHRAN -- Iran's highest authority lashed out against Israel on Friday with some of his harshest comments in recent memory about the Jewish state.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is Iran's top political and military figure, said his country's hostility to Israel extended beyond the government to the Israeli people as well. In saying so, he was brushing aside recent overtures by top Iranian officials to the Israeli public.

Khamenei said Iran and Israel were on a "collision course," a statement that could further increase tensions in a Middle East already fearful of a conflict between the two countries.


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Khamenei left little doubt about Iran's position on relations with Israel, saying he was raising the issue "to spell an end to any debates" on it.

"It is incorrect, irrational, pointless and nonsense to say that we are friends of Israeli people," said Khamenei, who delivers prayer sermons only on special occasions.

Iranian officials typically increase anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric in the week before the last Friday in the holy month of Ramadan, which is called Jerusalem Day in Iran. This year, it falls on Sept. 26.

The Muslim holy city of Jerusalem not being mentioned once in the Koran, of course.