Zionist regime 'knocked out' by Hamas' Al-Aqsa Storm

Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting on Wednesday with a group of Iranian athletes, sports personalities, and medal winners who participated in the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

“If I am going to offer you a breakdown on the recent developments, it goes as, the Zionist regime was knocked out in Al-Aqsa Storm,” the Leader said.

[The Palestinian resistance movement] Hamas, not as a government and country with ample facilities, but as a combatant group, managed to deal a knockout blow to the usurping Zionists with all those facilities.

Ayatollah Khamenei expressed his appreciation of those athletes who rooted for the Palestinian cause and withdrew from vying with the occupying regime’s representatives in Hangzhou’s international sports tournament, saying the veracity of their act is being manifested more than ever before in the wake of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.