In a speech at an MPs' conference, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Israel was "like a dying fish reaching the end of its life... a stinking corpse about to sink... Anyone who thinks that its 60th anniversary festivities will revive it is badly mistaken, and those participating in the festivities will go down in history as criminal Zionists."
Ahmadinejad also warned that the governments of the region that are helping Israel "will be burned in the fire of the rage of the nations."
He added that if anyone imagined that by means of sowing division between Iran and its allies he could change the global balances, then they were badly mistaken, because the nations would bury him.
In an editorial, the Iranian daily Jomhouri-e Eslami stated that despite its 60th anniversary celebrations, Israel was collapsing, and would not live long. The paper said that the Islamic resistance organizations in Palestine and the rest of the Islamic fighters "would soon destroy the spider regime of Israel."
Sources: Jomhouri-e Eslami, Iran, May 11, 2008; Emrooz, Iran, May 10, 2008
