TEHRAN (AFP)--Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday urged Muslim states to punish Israel and deplored what he called some Arab leaders' silence in the face of deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip. "The Zionist regime should be punished by Muslim states.
This usurping regime's leaders should also go on trial and be punished for this crime," Khamenei said in a statement quoted by state-run television. "All Palestinian Mujahids (fighters) and believers in the Islamic world are required to defend in any way they can the defenseless women, children and people of Gaza," the leader said. "Anyone who is killed in this legitimate and sacred defense is a martyr.
" Condemning Israeli raids on Gaza, Khamenei said, "the greater catastrophe is some Arab governments that claim to be Muslims encouraging silence." More than 280 Palestinians have been killed since Israeli warplanes launched air strikes on a wide range of Hamas targets in the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday morning. Israel responded initially to violence that erupted around Gaza in early November by tightening its blockade of the territory and blocking deliveries of humanitarian aid and other basic supplies. Tehran is a staunch supporter of Hamas but rejects allegations that it supplies arms to the movement, saying it provides moral backing only.
Iran does not recognize the Jewish state and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map and called the Holocaust a "myth."
AFP
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