“[Israel is] the great Zionist Satan.”

— Hassan Rouhani

Remark made in 2012, as quoted in "The Iranian Election: Have the People Really Won?" http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/irwin-cotler/iran-election_b_3451371.html, The Huffington Post, (June 16, 2013)

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