Haaretz
Adar 11,5767
Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Sudan late Wednesday that "Zionists are the
true manifestation of Satan," state-run IRNA news agency
reported.
"The Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan,"
Ahmadinejad said during the state visit, speaking to a meeting of Sudanese
Islamic scholars in the capital Khartoum.
Both Sudan and Iran are
accused internationally of supporting radical Islamic
movements.
"Many Western governments that claim to be pioneers of
democracy and standard bearers of human rights close their eyes over
crimes committed by the Zionists and by remaining silent support the
Zionists due to their hedonistic and materialistic tendencies," the
Iranian leader said.
Both countries do not recognize Israel, and
Israeli citizens are barred from entering Sudan.
Ahmadinejad told
IRNA before leaving Iran that his meetings with Sudanese President Omar
Hassan al-Bashir would play an important role in promoting mutual
relations and cooperation in political, economic and cultural fields.
Ahmadinejad has made a habit of making virulently anti-Israel
comments, calling for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map," among
other verbal attacks.
He also has called the Holocaust a myth and
held a conference of revisionist historians on the credibility that six
million Jews were killed by Nazis during World War II.