
May 17 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Israel is "a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor in the region" that must be uprooted.
"Undoubtedly, in this region, the source of corruption, war, and conflict is the Zionist regime — a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor in the region — and it must be uprooted and it will be uprooted," he said, according to state media.