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Samir Quntar urges destruction of Zionist regime at award ceremony in Tehran yesterday

Quntar Urges Continued Resistance against US, Israel TEHRAN (FNA)- Samir Quntar, a Lebanese who served the longest term in Israeli prisons before he was released last year, underlined the need for resisting the US ruling system and destroying the Zionist regime of Israel.

“We must destroy the Zionist regime and to do so the resistance needs self-sacrifice,” said Quntar, who was freed after 27-year of imprisonment in Israeli jails last year. He arrived in Iran on Wednesday and expressed his gratitude to Tehran for its role in backing the Lebanese and Palestinian “resistance” against Israel. He pointed to the sufferings of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution in 1970s and the Lebanese in the 2006 war with Israel which both led to their victory, and expressed the hope that Gaza and Palestine would have the same destiny and see victory after hardships, the Iranian students news agency reported. “We must resist against the US ruling system, the US which is supporter of taghoot (tyrant) in the region and the world,” he asserted. “The path of resistance against cruelty and arrogance that is spread to Washington must be continued and Israel must be destroyed and that is the path that we step on in Lebanon’s Islamic resistance,” the former Lebanese prisoner added. Earlier Quntar told AFP that Iran “has played a crucial role in supporting the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance and I am here to express my deepest gratitude to this country.”