From The Australian, correspondents in Tehran, October 31, 2005 . . .
IRAN'S supreme leader said yesterday that Palestinian "resistance" will topple the Israeli regime, amid international condemnation of the Iranian president's remarks that Israel should be erased from the map. "It is the resistance in Palestine which will undoubtedly lead to the fall of the Zionist regime," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a statement carried by the student-run news agency ISNA.
Mr Khamenei's statement came four days after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked international outcry when he declared that the Jewish state should be "wiped off the map."
The UN Security Council condemned the hardline president's words.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday the statement "only demonstrates why we are working so hard to keep Iran from getting technologies that lead to a nuclear weapon under cover of civilian nuclear power."
Mr Khamenei retorted: "These ignorant people do not realize that nuclear weapons are no good for toppling regimes or governments. It is the nation's resistance and will that destroys corrupt regimes.
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