Had He Survived, Khamenei Would Certainly Have Attempted to Destroy Israel

Who says so? He did. Many times.

By Robert Spencer

The Ayatollah Khamenei is dead now, and he died before he was able to realize the central goal of his long tenure as the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran: destroying the Jewish state.

From the moment that he became supreme leader in 1989, Khamenei repeatedly reiterated the necessity of utterly destroying Israel. On December 4, 1990, he said, “Regarding the Palestine issue, the problem is taking back Palestine, which means disappearance of Israel.” He made it clear that this didn’t just mean the Israeli land commonly termed “the occupied territories,” but the entire state of Israel: “There is no difference between occupied territories before and after [the Arab-Israeli war of] 1967. Every inch of Palestinian land is an inch of Palestinians’ home. Any entity ruling Palestine is illegitimate unless it is Islamic and by Palestinians. Our position is what our late Imam [Khomeini] said, ‘Israel must disappear.’”

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