Ali Khamenei, February 3, 2012

Author
Ali Khamenei
Date
Feb. 3, 2012
Name of Author
Ali Khamenei
Quote URL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-says-it-launched-satellite…
Body

“The Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off. And it definitely will be cut off.”Thomas Erdbrink, “Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran will back ‘any nations, any groups’ fighting Israel,” Washington Post, February 3, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-says-it-launched-satellite/2012/02/03/gIQARNuDmQ_story.html.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-Zionist
Threat
Islamic Republic of Iran

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