Thursday, November 21, 2013

Israel ‘unpleasantly surprised’ by mild US reaction to Khamenei’s vicious speech

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in June. (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)
Jerusalem is “unpleasantly surprised” that, as of Thursday afternoon, the Obama administration had not unequivocally condemned vicious anti-Israel statements made Wednesday morning by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, senior Israeli officials told The Times of Israel.
In an address to an assembly of tens of thousands of Basij militiamen, Khamenei declared that Israel was doomed to fail and characterized the “Zionist regime” as the “sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region.” He also said Israelis “cannot be called human beings.” Footage of the event showed the crowd shouting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

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