Iran’s leader warns Qatari Emir about Israel

Iran’s leader warns Qatari Emir about Israel

Al-Monitor- May 12th 2022

Israel appeared to have been the main topic in a meeting between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the visiting Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in Tehran on May 12.

“Wherever they set their feet on, the Zionists [Israel] cause corruption,” Khamenei declared, according to a report published by his official website. “The Arab world is expected to openly enter the field of political action against [Israel’s] obvious crimes.”

In what appeared as a word of caution to Sheikh Tamim, the Iranian leader suggested that relations with Israel do not promise any “power and privilege” and that Israel “is in no position that one should be sacred by.”

The Islamic Republic has relentlessly expressed its ferocious opposition to a chain of normalization pacts between Arab states and Israel, slamming the rapprochement as “treason.”

Khamenei concluded that “we in the region ought to strengthen our ties through consultation and cooperation” as he condemned the “malicious Zionists” whose “decades-long oppression against Palestinians … has dealt a blow to the Islamic and Arab world.”

The Qatari emir, according to the Khamenei website, “admired the distinguished position” of the Iranian leader in the Islamic world, lamented Israeli “crimes” and urged unity in the face of “the developments in Palestine.”

Before sitting down with Khamenei, the Qatari leader appeared at a joint press conference with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, where the focus was regional developments and calls for political settlements to conflicts from Syria and Yemen to Afghanistan.

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