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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jan. 21 –
Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told senior leaders of a radical Palestinian
group in Damascus on Friday that
the Middle East conflict has become “the locus of the final war”
between Muslims and the West, Iran’s official news
agency, IRNA, reported.
Ahmadinejad, who was speaking on the second day of
his two-day trip to Syria, told the
leaders of Hamas, “Today, victory in Palestine has become a
matter of life and death for the Islamic world and for Global Arrogance (the
West)”.
The Iranian president urged the Palestinians to reject moves such as Israel’s withdrawal
from Gaza.
“Some point to the withdrawal of the occupiers from parts of Palestine, but this event
has already been greatly detrimental to Muslims”, Ahmadinejad
said.
“If the occupiers stay on even one inch of Palestinian soil, the goal of
Palestine will not be realised”, Ahmadinejad told Hamas leaders, who included Khalid
Mash’al, the head of the group’s political bureau.
“We must not let our guard down now for even one moment against the enemies’
plots. Belittling the goal of Palestine is a great plot
that the enemies are after”, he said.
Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a “myth” and
said that Israel must be “wiped
off the map”.
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