Iran’s Khamenei blasts "cancerous" Israel

[oberliner]

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blasted "cancerous" Israel Monday, a day after its premier Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the planned passage of Iranian warships through the Suez Canal.

"The fake Zionist government is a cancerous tumor and the cause of different diseases and political, economic calamity in the region," the commander-in-chief of Iran told officials while marking the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed which in the Shiite calendar fell on Monday.

"The arrogance (Iran's standard term of abuse for the United States) is doing its best to preserve this warmongering tumor, but today the hatred of regional nations towards this cancerous tumor is more evident," state television quoted him as saying.

Khamenei's remarks come as two Iranian warships are set to pass through the Suez Canal -- first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution -- which has raised concerns in arch-foe Israel.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/21/138589.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. Well, he has to say SOMETHING to deflect people's attention away from the regime...

and onto the big bogeyman!

Hope this lot go the same way as some other Middle Eastern leaders.

[oberliner]

2. Seems to have worked

Iran's protests appeara to have faded a bit from the news.