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Iran-MidEast: Khamenei urges Hamas to keep up resistance |
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005 |
 United Press International, TEHRAN - Iran's spiritual guide, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, called on Hamas not to negotiate with Israel and to stick
to their armed resistance to achieve liberation.
Speaking at a meeting with visiting Hamas Politburo chief Khaled
Mishaal, the Iranian News Agency, IRNA, December 13, quoted Khamenei as
saying, "the experience of the last 50 years shows that making
concessions to the Zionist occupants and entering negotiations with
them did not make things better.
"That is why victory and success can only be achieved through resistance and steadfastness," Khamenei said.
He stressed that "the successes achieved by the Palestinian people in
the past few years, especially the eviction of the Zionists from Gaza,
is the result of resistance and jihad against the Zionist entity
(Israel)."
He also emphasized that "the only guarantee for liberating Palestinian
territory and securing the future of the Palestinian people is through
maintaining firm resistance while safeguarding unity and sticking to
the principles of Islam."
Khamenei noted that the enemies of the Palestinian people are suffering from political and economic problems.
"They were defeated in the past in Lebanon, they were forced to
withdraw from Gaza and with God's help the Palestinian people and their
resistance movement will evict them from holy Jerusalem tomorrow,"
Khamenei added.
Mishaal has been visiting Iran since Sunday as part of a tour of Arab
and Islamic countries to consolidate relations and seek support for the
Palestinian cause and brief their leaders on the situation in the
Palestinian territories, a Hamas statement said.
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