Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei further said that the “shaky Zionist regime and the cancerous tumour of Israel have also drawn near to the final stages of their ill-fated lifespan”.

Khamenei stressed that the rituals at Arafat this year “hold double importance, and the depth and breadth of disavowing America and the Zionist regime surpasses the ritual of disavowal in the season and station of Haj”.

“After these blessed days, ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’ will be the prevalent slogan of the Islamic Ummah,” he asserted.

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