Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a gathering with a bunch of Iranian athletes, sports activities personalities, and medal winners who participated within the 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China.
“If I’m going to give you a breakdown on the current developments, it goes as, the Zionist regime was knocked out in Al-Aqsa Storm,” the Chief stated on Wednesday.
“[The Palestinian resistance movement] Hamas, not as a authorities and nation with ample services, however as a combatant group, managed to deal a knockout blow to the usurping Zionists with all these services.”
Ayatollah Khamenei hailed these athletes who expressed their assist for Palestine and the Palestinian trigger, and withdrew from competing with the occupying regime’s representatives in worldwide tournaments, saying the veracity of their act is now manifested greater than ever earlier than within the wake of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
“Right now, the entire world has realized why the Iranian athlete is not going to conform to face the Zionist aspect on the sphere,” the Chief added.
“As a result of [the athlete] is a prison and he’s doing sports activities and going to the sphere for a prison state; [therefore] serving to him helps a terrorist and prison regime.”
Stressing that the Israeli regime remains to be reeling from the burden and shame of a heavy defeat after Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, the Chief stated, “Sure, they’re flexing muscle tissue; however the place? This present of energy has no worth in relation to the hospitals for sufferers in Gaza, to the faculties in Gaza, on the heads of the homeless folks of Gaza.”
Ayatollah Khamenei added, “It’s as if an athlete loses on the sphere, after which in revenge for that loss, he assaults the followers of the opposing crew, insults them and beats them up.”
Pointing to Israel’s incessant shelling of Gaza over the previous 47 days, the Chief stated, “There’s nothing extra ignominious than what the Zionist regime has perpetrated. The Zionist regime’s heavy defeat is not going to be compensated by these bombings; such bombardment campaigns will solely shorten the lifetime of the occupying regime; [and] this tyranny and cruelty is not going to go unanswered.”
Elsewhere in his deal with, the Chief of the Islamic Revolution censured the politicization of sports activities and the double-standard method by sure worldwide organizations.
“They are saying sports activities will not be political, however when they should politicize sports activities, they politicize it within the worst means. On the slightest excuse, a rustic is banned from collaborating in all worldwide sports activities occasions. Why? [Because] You fought someplace; however they, themselves, ignore the 5,000 martyred kids in Gaza,” Ayatollah Khamenei added.
The Chief careworn that they ban a rustic on the pretext of warfare whereas ignoring one other nation’s warfare, warfare crimes, and even genocide.