Ali Khamenei Quotes

Iran, President
July 17, 1939

Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای‎, pronounced [ʔæˈliː hoseiˈniː χɒːmeneˈʔiː] (About this sound listen); born 17 July 1939) is a marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously President of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the second-longest serving head of state in the Middle East (after Oman's Sultan Qaboos), as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Today, you are hated throughout the world. If you don't know this, you should. The peoples burn your flag. The Islamic peoples all over the world chant: 'Death to America!'

Ali Khamenei
- World
- America
- Today
The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

Ali Khamenei
- Wolf

Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion Muslims is permissible in the West.

Ali Khamenei
- Freedom
- Holocaust
The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.

Ali Khamenei
It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance.

Ali Khamenei
- American
- Death
There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East, 'namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.'

Ali Khamenei
Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region… No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

Ali Khamenei
- America
- Ugly
Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.

Ali Khamenei

The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and… installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world… Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime.

Ali Khamenei
- World
- Great
- Heart
It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

Ali Khamenei
- Islamic
Don’t allow the colonialists to introduce their terrorists as representatives of Islam (January 21, 2015) 1

Ali Khamenei
From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this… The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.

Ali Khamenei
- God
- Help
- Fear