“It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.”

—  Ali Khamenei

January 15, 2001 remarks at a meeting with organizers of the International Conference for Support of the Intifada, as quoted in "The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel" http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IransIntent2012b.pdf#page=6, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (2012)
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