US schemes failed to help Israel gain regional dominance: IR Leader’s aide

A senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says US-sponsored schemes against Palestinians have failed to help Zionist regime dominate the region, and that years of anti-Israel resistance have weakened the occupation force.

 “Fifty years of resistance in Palestine and Lebanon and 20 years of direct struggle against the Zionist regime, which had dreams of ruling over regions from the Nile to the Euphrates, have made the Zionist regime beleaguered inside the separation walls [it has built], like a spider entangled in its own web,” Ali Akbar Velayati said on Tuesday.

Velayati, who is also secretary general of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening, made the remarks in a follow-up session of the Supreme Council of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening, which was held via videoconference at the central office of the Tasnim News Agency in Tehran.

He described resistance as the only option for liberating Palestine and thwarting American and Israeli plots.

Velyati said that the concept of resistance that was created after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran has defeated the “schemes of the arrogance” and has resulted in “Muslim unity” across the globe.

Resistance, he said, has brought about the defeat of the plots hatched by the US and its allies, including the Greater Middle East initiative, thwarted their proxy wars, and resulted in the failure of the Zionist regime’s military action against the Palestinian people’s Intifada.

He highlighted the failure of US President Donald Trump’s anti-Palestine Middle East scheme and Washington’s subsequent attempts to cover up its defeats in the region, saying the US and Israel are trying to deceive the public opinion through announcing normalization between the Zionist regime and a number of regional Arab states.

 “The puzzle of treason against Palestine and betraying the cause of Palestine will ultimately result in the domino of fall …of the puppet rulers” in the region, as awakened and freedom-seeking nations will stand against the reactionary regional regimes with prudence and insight, he said.