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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the country’s neighbors of adopting policies that serve the interests of the “Zionist regime,” semi-official Fars news agency reported.
“We are sorry for those countries around us and those neighbors that are at the service of the Zionists in the name of Islam and are providing the means to their hegemony over the world,” he said late on Sunday.
The hard-line Iranian president did not make a direct reference to any of its neighbors, but his remarks came as Turkey, Israel and the United States started joint military exercises in the Mediterranean Sea. The drill is expected to end Friday.
“They [neighbors] don't understand so they provide the Zionists with their possibilities. We hope that they wake up,” Ahmadinejad was quoted by the news agency as saying during a ceremony to commemorate World Mosques Day in Tehran.
Last week, it was announced that the United States, Israel and Turkey were set to launch joint military exercises in the Mediterranean Sea. Hosted by Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean, it was the 10th such exercise in as many years between the allies.
Turkey is Israel's principal ally in the region and both countries have close economic ties following a military cooperation agreement in 1996. Ankara hosted four rounds of peace negotiations between Israel and Syria until the talks were suspended when Israel launched a deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in July that his country was ready to resume its role as mediator in the suspended talks. A senior Israeli government official, however, said last week that there would be no new recourse to Turkish mediation, insisting that any new negotiations be direct.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad accuses neighbors of serving Zionism - Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review
This man said "Zionism" out right! He is an absolute frigging Islamist loon and needs to be toppled.