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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Iran’s Raisi calls for Israeli ‘oppressors and usurpers’ to be brought to justice
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi calls for Israel to be brought to justice for “usurpation and oppression,” during a one-day visit to Sri Lanka.
“When it come to the oppressor, when it come to the usurper, the Zionist Israeli regime has been committing oppression against the people of Palestine for 75 years, they have been usurping their territory,” Raisi says.
“First of all we have to expel the usurpers secondly we should make them pay the cost for all the damages they have created and thirdly we have to bring to justice the oppressor and usurper.”
Earlier today Raisi inaugurated a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri Lanka and said his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology.
Raisi is the first Iranian leader to visit Sri Lanka since former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad visited the country in 2008.
“The Western countries tried to convince all others that knowledge and technology is exclusive to those countries,” Raisi said, addressing Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe and other top officials. He charged that the “idea” is rooted in “colonialism and arrogance” and that Iran is now able to share its knowledge with others, currently having projects in 20 countries.
The Times of Israel Community.