Ahmadinejad denies 60th anniversary of Israel's establishment

Published May 13th, 2008 - 02:28 GMT

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday denounced the 60th anniversary of Israel's establishment. Speaking to domestic and foreign reporters, the Iranian leader said "celebrating birth anniversary for a dead will not have any effect on it nor will the presence of those who intend to attend the ceremony be of any help in giving a life to the dead body."

 

"Those who are to gather in the occupied land in Palestine and attend the ceremony marking the establishment of the illegal regime assume that their action would help bolster the declining regime," said the Ahmadinejad, according to IRNA. The world public opinion understands that holding such a ceremony indicates the weakness and decline of the fabricated regime, said the president.

 

He also said that the culprits engaged in a bomb blast in Shiraz have confessed that they had been in contact with Israel, the US and Britain.  Ahmadinejad said the "Zionist regime", US and Britain have repeatedly declared that they intend to assassinate Iranian officials, adding that shortly after such declaration a bomb explosion took place in Shiraz leading 12 people dead and many others wounded.