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Khamenei defends Oct. 7 Hamas massacres in Israel as ‘logical and legal’

4 October 2024, 1:13 pm 98 Edit
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, second right, Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei, right, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, second left, and President Masoud Pezeshkian read Quran in a ceremony commemorating assassinated Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque in Tehran, Oct. 4, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, second right, Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei, right, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, second left, and President Masoud Pezeshkian read Quran in a ceremony commemorating assassinated Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque in Tehran, Oct. 4, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Ali Khamenei says last year’s Hamas massacres in Israel, which triggered the war in Gaza, were “logical and legal.”

“The Al-Aqsa Flood attacks that took place around this time last year were a logical and legal international move and the Palestinians were right,” Khamenei says at a rare Friday prayer sermon in Tehran.

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