Convicted Terrorist Samir Kuntar: Iran Ayatollah’s tirade has ‘Zionist regime’ running scared
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to anti-Israel comments by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei show that Iran has Israel “horrified,” convicted terrorist Samir Kuntar said in a conference in Tehran on Monday.
Kuntar, who was convicted of murdering four Israelis in a 1979 terror attack and was released by Israel as part of a prisoner exchange deal in 2008, was referring to comments by the Iranian Supreme Leader on Saturday, when he called Israel a “cancerous tumor” that should be removed.
Samir Kantar in south of Beirut, Lebanon, July 17, 2008.
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Speaking later Saturday, Netanyahu said Khamenei’s remarks “strengthen the steadfastness of my government on the security needs of Israel’s citizens and our demand that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state.”
On Monday, speaking on the sidelines of the Tehran conference on the Palestinian Intifada, Kuntar remarked on the swiftness of Netanyahu’s response, tells the semi-official Fars Iranian news agency that “Ayatollah Khamenei’s statements horrified the Zionist regime, otherwise we would not witness Netanyahu’s rapid reaction.”
