NCRI – The Fateh movement in Palestine has lambasted recent remarks by the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, that were clearly intended to meddle in Palestinian affairs. The movement called on Palestinians to oppose the regime’s sinister intentions for hijacking their cause and ideals.
According to the Arab-language daily Asharq al-Awsat on Tuesday, Fateh released a statement in reaction to Khamenei’s remarks during a Friday prayer session recently criticizing Palestinian leaders for beginning peace talks with Israel.
NCRI – The Fateh movement in Palestine has lambasted recent remarks by the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, that were clearly intended to meddle in Palestinian affairs. The movement called on Palestinians to oppose the regime’s sinister intentions for hijacking their cause and ideals.
According to the Arab-language daily Asharq al-Awsat on Tuesday, Fatah released a statement in reaction to Khamenei’s remarks during a Friday prayer session recently criticizing Palestinian leaders for beginning peace talks with Israel.
According to Asharq al-Awsat, the statement describes Khamenei’s remarks “a banal and contemptible attempt to exploit the struggle of the Palestinian nation and its leadership, and a blatant interference in the internal affairs of the Palestinian people.”
“Khamenei’s statements reveal the Iranian regime’s long term aspirations to hijack the ideal of Palestine and our people’s sacrifices and subjugate them to the regional ambitions of the Iranian regime and its expansionist agenda,” the central committee of Fateh added in the statement.
“The regime of Khamenei and [mullahs’ President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, which suppresses the brother nation of Iran with all its religious and ethnic diversity, has shameful and clear goals to sow the seeds of divisions among Palestinians and break apart the Arab world. The regime intends to engulf the region in an eternal cycle of internal conflict.”
Fateh added, “The Fateh movement emphasizes its firm opposition to the continuous attempts by the Khamenei-Ahmadinejad regime to exploit the Palestinian issue and the plight of its people as a card for compromising with the West, as a way to implement its regional agenda, and as an instrument to interfere in the domestic affairs of the Arab nations and to harm its unity and crucial interests.”
“Fateh considers it necessary to react to the statements of Khamenei and his shameful interference in the domestic affairs of Palestine as well as his insults against its legitimate leader, President Mahmoud Abbas. Meddling in the national and independent decisions of Palestine or trying to influence them constitutes a red line and neither the Iranian regime nor anyone else will not be allowed to encroach this line.”
“The Palestinian nation,” the statement added, “has struggled for the past five decades under the leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Thousands of lives have been lost and thousands are imprisoned. Therefore, the dictates of the likes of Khamenei are hardly needed for our struggle and our national and independent decision. Palestinians will not allow this to happen.”
Last week, too, following the clerical regime’s meddling in Palestinian affairs and provocative remarks by Ahmadinejad, Palestinian President Abbas said the Iranian regime has absolutely no right to meddle in the affairs of Palestine.
