Velayati: Occupation of the Palestinian territories is the repeat of the Crusaders

On Monday: At the al-Aqsa Liberation Movement Conference, Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser to the international affairs of the Supreme Leader, said: “West Asia has always been the attention of colonists as the heart of the Muslim world."

Referring to the Crusades between Muslims and Christians, he added: "The occupation of the Palestinian Territory is a repeat of the Crusaders." In recent years, Americans and Europeans have been pushing for a new Middle East plot to change the borders and expand the Middle East to the Caucasus to dominate the borders of Russia, China and the Islamic world.

Referring to Syrian war, he stated: If Iran was not there helping on grounds, the Syrian government would have fall within a few months, the west also wanted to divide Iraq into three Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish states, in which this plan was also defeated by Iranian support for the Iraqi government and people. If we wouldn’t have confronted all those pressures, today, the Zionist forces were on the other side of the border. Therefore, according to logic, we supported the legitimate governments of these countries.