Ahmadinejad to Assad 'Destroy Israel if it attacks'

Ahmadinejad to Assad 'Destroy Israel if it attacks'

Iran’s State broadcaster reported yesterday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Assad his country has 'reliable information Zionist regime looking to compensate for its ridiculous defeats in Gaza, Lebanon'

According to a Reuters report Ahmadinejad also said on Wednesday that "If the Zionist regime should repeat its mistakes and initiate a military operation, then it must be resisted with full force to put an end to it once and for all"

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has on many occasions called for Israel to be "wiped off the map"

Israel sees Iran's nuclear program as an existential threat and has not ruled out military action should diplomacy fail to deliver an agreement that would halt the Islamic regimes nuclear ambitions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of European diplomats yesterday that "Iran is racing forward to produce nuclear weapons" emphasizing the situation shall not be resolved by weak sanctions, saying "This means not moderate sanctions, or watered-down sanctions," while reminding them that the time left to apply these measures is running out "This means crippling sanctions and these sanctions must be applied right now."

The Islamic Republic does not recognize Israel and will not mention Israel by name but says “Zionist regime” or as Iran’s FM Mottaki said this week "a mad nation led by insane people" referring to Israel.

Last May, General Ataollah Salehi, general commander of the Iranian army said: "The truth is that Israel does not have the courage to attack us. If we are subjected to any attack by Israel, I do not think we will need more than 11 days to wipe Israel out of existence."

Anti-government protesters were dispersed today on Tehran’s main square as hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Iran’s 31st anniversary of the revolution.

According to reports from the Wall Street Journal the Iranian telecommunications have suspended all email deliveries to and from Gmail – Google has not yet commented