Israel’s disintegration to speed up after normalization: Leader’s advisor

A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says normalization between Israel and the United Arab Emirates serves to further galvanize the regional peoples against the occupying regime, thus bringing its ultimate disintegration closer.

Ali Akbar Velayati, who advises the Leader on foreign policy matters, made the remarks in a statement on Saturday in his capacity as secretary general of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening. The body was formed after the 2010 protests that sprung in Tunisia before spreading throughout much of the Arab world, toppling several tyrannical rulers.

The United Arab Emirates and Israel announced a deal enabling eventual full normalization of their relations on Thursday. It was met with uniform condemnation of all Palestinian factions, who called it a stab in the back of the Palestinians and sheer betrayal of their cause.

Velayati called the agreement “ignominious and reprehensible.” The deal would only result in Abu Dhabi’s isolation, alienation from the rest of the international Muslim nation, and engender such level of Islamic awakening among the regional peoples that “will precipitate the Zionist regime’s disintegration,” he added.

Following Israel’s occupation of Palestinian and other Arab territories, the regime scored successive victories against the Arab front due to lack of alignment and necessary cooperation within the Arab world, the statement said. Tel Aviv’s victories were also owed to some Arab states’ clandestine collaboration with the global arrogant powers and the Zionist lobby, it added.

However, victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 and removal of the country’s US-backed and Israel-allied former regime “invited a new phase in the developments that concerned Palestine, and the course of the [regional] resistance tipped the balance of power in favor of the oppressed people of Palestine,” the statement said.

The advisor cited Israel’s failure to impose its conditions on Lebanon and the Gaza Strip during the wars that the occupying regime waged against the territories in the 2000s as cases in point.

The official went on to elaborate on some more recent victories that have been scored by the regional resistance front in the face of Israel and the countries that support it.

The United States, Israel’s biggest ally, suffered a “terrible defeat” in its effort to impose its hugely pro-Tel Aviv “deal of the century” scheme earlier this year, while Washington and its allies failed to break down the axis of resistance in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, the statement said.

The Assembly finally urged all Muslim states and nations to openly condemn the normalization push, and “spare no effort until the final victory of the Palestinian cause, i.e. disintegration and fall of the usurping Zionist government.”

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