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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Nov. 01 – Iran’s
Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi defended
threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the state of Israel as
the policy of the Islamic Republic, state-run dailies reported on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Ahmadinejad called for the
destruction of Israel
and threatened leaders of Muslim countries that developed ties with the
Jewish state that they would burn in the “fire” of their nations’ “fury”.
“The President’s remarks were a repeat of the past positions of the Islamic
Republic”, Hashemi Shahroudi
told a meeting of senior judiciary officials.
“The usurper state of Israel
is an illegitimate entity”, he said.
The judiciary chief dismissed the global reaction to the Iranian
president’s speech as “nothing new”.
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