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Iran’s Supreme Leader Urges Eradication of Israel, Calling It a ‘Cancer’

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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with commanders and a group of members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran, Iran, August 17, 2023.

Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA via Reuters

Iranian supreme leader Khamenei said today that Israel is a “cancer” that will be eradicated by the ongoing terrorist attacks by Tehran’s proxies in Gaza, in some of his first comments since they began today.

“God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region,” he wrote on Twitter this afternoon, while sharing a video of dozens of people running, apparently away from Hamas operatives.

Jimmy Quinn

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Jimmy Quinn

Jimmy Quinn is the former national security correspondent for National Review.

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