Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei promised increased support for Palestinian terrorists and urged them
to stockpile arms in anticipation of a new war on Israel, according to public
comments made Thursday following his meeting with members of the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group.
“Fighting the Zionist regime [Israel] is a war of
destiny,” Khamenei said after a meeting with PIJ’s secretary
general, according to
Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency.
Khamenei instructed Palestinians to
“intensify their fight against the Israeli regime” and vowed that Iran would
continue to arm Palestinian terrorists in both the Gaza Strip and West Bank,
according to Fars.
All Palestinian terrorists
groups—with Iran’s support—should rearm and prepare for another war with
Israel, Khamenei said.
“The resistance movements in
Palestine should boost their preparedness day by day and reinforce their power
resources inside Gaza,” Khamenei was quoted as saying Thursday, less than
two months after Israel launched an intense several week war against Hamas
militants in the Gaza Strip.
Khamenei maintained that the most
recent war with Israel, in which thousands of terror rockets were dropped on
the Jewish people, marked the start of the “divine promise” of destroying the
Jewish state.
The supreme leader also discussed the
importance of arming terrorists in the West Bank, which is controlled by the Fatah
Party.
Iran said in
late August, days after the last war officially ended, that Tehran had stepped up arm shipments to
the West Bank.
“The enemy should feel the same
worries in the West Bank as it does in Gaza,” Khamenei said on Thursday, adding
that Tehran will continue its support for the Palestinian “resistance.”
“The Islamic Republic and the Iranian
people are proud of your victory and resistance, and hope that the back-to-back
triumphs of resistance groups will continue until final victory,” he was quoted
as saying.
PIJ Secretary General Ramazan
Abdullah thanked Khamenei for Iran’s ongoing support for terrorism against
Israel.
“Definitely, the victory was achieved
with the assistance of the Islamic Republic,” Abdullah was quoted as saying by
Fars following his meeting with Khamenei in Tehran. “Without Iran’s strategic
and efficient help, resistance and victory in Gaza would have been impossible.”
Iran’s “arming” of the Palestinian
factions in the West Bank has been “strategic and effective,” according to
Abdullah, who also noted that Tehran’s support has “re-energized the
Palestinian fighters and raised their spirit,” according to Fars.
Additionally,
Iran on Thursday sent a plane of what it claimed is humanitarian aid and food
to the Palestinians. The aid was said to be delivered via Egypt.
“The society has dispatched aid
packages, including tents, blankets, food, and medical products worth $890,000
to Gaza,” the Iranian Red Crescent announced on Thursday.
As the Obama administration
contemplates extending nuclear talks with Iran through the November deadline,
sources on Capitol Hill are warning that there is no way to stem Iran’s support
for terrorism.
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