Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh verbal attack on Israel by describing "Zionists" as the "most detested people" on the planet. The comment came after Iran's top national security official, Ali Larijani, had met Palestinian groups to voice the Islamic republic's "decisive support" for their battle against Israel.
"The Zionists and their protectors are the most detested people in all of humanity, and the hatred is increasing every day," the president was quoted as saying by Iranian state television.
"The worse their crimes, the quicker they will fall," added Ahmadinejad, who has already called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map" and relocated as far away as Alaska.
Israel, the president asserted in his latest attack, "has blackened the pages of history".
The official news agency IRNA reported earlier that Larijani, during a flying visit to close ally Syria on Wednesday, had declared "the Islamic republic's decisive support for the Palestinian and the Lebanese resistance against Israel."
The report said Larijani had met "Palestinian movement leaders who are against the peace process", including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC).
The visit came as Israel launched offensives against both Lebanon and the Gaza Strip over the killing and capture of Israeli soldiers by militants.
