Top Iranian official predicts corruption will annihilate Israel

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council was meeting with Hamas’ co-founder when he predicted Israel’s demise.

By David Jablinowitz, World Israel News

Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, predicted on Sunday that widespread corruption will annihilate Israel.

“What will annihilate the Zionist regime is internal and widespread corruption of its heads and the nations’ awareness of this child-killer regime’s plots and cruelty against the [sic] humanity,” he said, according to the Tehran Times, during a meeting with Mahmoud al-Zahar, the co-founder of Hamas and a member of its leadership in Gaza.

Shamkhani also praised Palestinians’ resistance against Israel, the paper said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been under criminal investigation in a number of cases involving alleged political improprieties, and the country’s attorney general is expected to decide soon whether the prime minister should be indicted.

For his part, Zahar said the “illegitimate” regime of Israel is on the wane and condemned any move that leads to recognition of Israel. Zahar, who was leading a parliamentary delegation to Iran, also condemned certain Islamic countries’ actions against Iran, which weakened the position of the Palestinian cause.

Iran, whose leaders have spoken openly of destroying Israel, supports Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

The U.S. administration under President Donald Trump has pulled out of the pact signed by six world powers, including the U.S. under President Barack Obama, with Tehran on curbing Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu and Trump have argued that the pact does not crack down enough against Iranian ambitions.