Iran Will Support Anyone Who Strikes At Israel, Says Supreme Leader Khamenei:

by Benson Agoha | Middle East

Nuclear Deal not-withstanding, Iran's position on Israel remains the same, Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday.

* Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's is seen speaking in a meeting with members
of Iran's Experts Assembly in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.
(Credit: via ToI)

According to the Times of Israel, the Supreme Leader was quoted by Iran's media meeting with Iran's Experts Assembly in Tehran., saying his country will support anyone who strikes against Israel and the “Zionist regime”.

The Ayatollah repeated warning to the US against any diplomatic efforts to sway Iran’s policies and urged his country’s armed forces on Thursday to “create such might and power that enemies don’t even dare think about aggression against the country’s borders.”

“Washington imagined that it could use this agreement whose fate is not yet clear — as its final approval is not yet a definite fact neither in Iran nor the US — to find a way to wield influence in Iran; and this was their intention,” he said, repeating earlier comments regarding the nuclear agreement, during which he said the world should not expect the deal to become a means to influence Iran.

The Ayatollah accused the West of a Grand design to break up the Middle Eastern countries saying “They seek to disintegrate the regional states and create small and subordinate countries, but God willing this will not happen.” 

He told them that the “Disintegration of Iraq and Syria, if they can, is the clear policy of the Americans, but the territorial integrity of the regional states, Iraq and Syria is highly important to us,” he said adding “We will not allow the US to influence (our) economy, or politics or culture. We will stand against such penetration with all our power — that is, thank God, at a high level today.”

His comments come only days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accused the UN of maintaining "deafening silence" over Iran's threat to annihilate Israel.