Rouhani censures Zionist entity as enemy of Palestine, entire region

As supporters of the Palestinian cause prepare to mark the World Quds Day worldwide, President Hassan Rouhani has denounced the illegal Zionist entity as the enemy of Palestinians and other nations in the region, but said the regime’s occupation of Palestine will not last forever.

“The Zionists are the enemies of the region, of security, of Palestinian people and of their neighbors, and they are the executioners and tyrants of [contemporary] history, who have displaced millions of people from their homes,” he said at a weekly cabinet session on Wednesday, Press TV reported.

Referring to World Quds Day, which falls on May 7 this year, the President said the occasion would be a “mourning day for the Zionists” this year.

He mentioned that the World Quds Day, which was named by the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini to support the Palestinian cause, is a source of pride for the Islamic Republic of Iran and a legacy of the late Imam.

“The Zionists thought that the issue of Quds was done for good, and that their occupation was consolidated. But then the Imam created this earthquake (World Quds Day) and made them realize that Quds is victorious,” he said.

The president further said that the Palestinian people will sooner or later return to their land, and that al-Quds and al-Aqsa Mosque will be liberated from the occupation.

Elsewhere in his Wednesday comments, Rouhani said the Israeli regime tried very hard to overthrow the Islamic Revolution soon after its came to fruition, adding that all the difficulties the Iranian nation has been facing up to the current day are somehow rooted in Israeli enmity.

‘Zionists did a big job to get Trump elected’

He explained that Iran and six world powers were on the verge of reaching a nuclear agreement nearly a year before the historic Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was inked in 2015, but Israel and certain reactionary countries in the region told the US to hold off for a few months.

They told the US, according to Rouhani, that “we will reduce oil prices so Iran would be forced to agree to whatever you say.” And that is how they managed to hamper the signing of a deal, he recalled.

He said they continued their conspiracies against Iran even after the JCPOA was clinched and that they succeeded in one of their plots during the 2016 US election, which saw Donald Trump’s rise to the Oval Office.

Rouhani was referring to the US withdrawal from the JCPOA in May 2018 by President Trump, who under intense lobbying by Israel and Saudi Arabia adopted a very hostile policy of sanctions and threats against the Islamic Republic.

“The Zionists did a big job to get Trump elected and they knew [Trump] was an inept person who can be fooled easily,” he said. “They made him their mercenary and scrapped the JCPOA, thinking the deal was finished for good.”

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