Ahmadinejad: Israeli criminals will die

The legal measures will bear results and the criminals of the Zionist regime will eventually be put to death, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.

Speaking at a Tehran conference in support of the Palestinians, Ahmadinejad called for "a global front against Zionism which would work to support the people in Gaza and in Palestine on the one hand, and work to punish the Zionist criminals on the other hand."

The conference was attended by senior members of the Palestinian terror organizations. According to one report, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah headed the Lebanese delegation to the event.

Earlier this week, Iran appealed to the Interpol demanding that 15 senior Israeli officials be arrested, including the prime minister, the defense minister, the foreign minister and the army chief.

Ahmadinejad reiterated that the West and Israel were on a course of collapse, noting that the only way to solve the Palestinian issue was to "honor the rights of all the Palestinians, the Muslims, Christians and Jews, those who are inside and those in the rest of the world."

Nabi Berri and Mahmoud al-Zahar in Tehran (Photo: AFP)

According to the Iranian president, "The Palestinians are the only ones who should determine their fate."

The Tehran regime's stance is that the Palestinian refugees must be allowed to return, and that this must be followed by a referendum which would put an end to the Jewish majority in Israel, in a democratic way.

Some 80 delegations from across the world have arrived at the conference, including parliamentary delegations from Egypt and Syria, as well as representatives of the terror organizations supported by Iran.

According to senior Iranian officials quoted by the Tabnak website, Hizbullah chief Nasrallah arrived from Lebanon, accompanied by Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabi Berri and murderer Samir Kuntar.

The conference's attendees also included Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar and Moussa Abu Marzouk, Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ramadan Salah, and Fatah's Farouk Kadumi, the PLO leader in Tunisia.

Addressing the Sharm el-Sheik summit, Ahmadinejad said that "the difference between the two conferences is like the difference between man and Satan. On the one side is a pure, just and good front, and on the other side they have formed a rebellious front."

Neturei Karta against 'Zionism's satanic views'

Representatives of the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta movement also took part in the Tehran conference and met with the Iranian president. One of them, Aharon Cohen of Britain, told Ahmadinejad, "We will always support your brave stances against Zionism's satanic views."

Abu Marzouk, Hamas' deputy politburo chief, said during the event that the Palestinian organization "wanted the national unity talks to succeed, but such a unity that would satisfy the Palestinian people, rather than an agreement compromising the rights."

He added, "We welcome the plans to rebuild Gaza, but if any condition is made against the principles of the Palestinian people – we won't accept it."

Earlier, Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed the Obama administration, saying that the US president was continuing "the wrong way".

Khamenei, who is considered the person with the highest authority in Iran , told the conference that "even America's new president, who was elected with slogans of changing the Bush administration, defends the terror state by talking about an unconditional commitment to Israel's security."

The Iranian conference was held two days after the international conference in Egypt, which raised $4.5 billion in donations for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

In Tehran, the conference's secretary-general, Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur strongly criticized the Egyptian convention, saying that "those who took part in the conference and those who staged that puppet show, approved the horrors committed by the Zionist regime in Gaza."