Iran: We Will Help 'Cut Out the Cancer of Israel'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Iran will help anyone willing to "cut out the cancer" of Israel, its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today.

The religious leader also told worshippers at Friday prayers that the country will continue its controversial nuclear programme.

He warned that any military strike by the West would only make Iran stronger.

"From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this," said Khamenei.

He said Israel is a "cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut".

Iran has been repeatedly defiant to hints that the US and Israel may at some point launch military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

But any statement by Iran's Supreme Leader, who has final say on all matters of state, makes it all the more unlikely that Tehran will switch tack. Read on and comment » | Friday, February 03, 2012

My comment:

Khamenei is supposed to be the supreme spiritual leader. Not much spiritual in these pronouncements. He sounds more like a warmonger than an ayatollah! – © Mark

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