After praising Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, he urged Iranians to resist their enemies but with “the least costs and with prudence and wisdom,” a hard jab at Ahmadinejad, who many within Iran’s circle of power say has needlessly alienated the world with his persistent questioning of the Holocaust.Qalibaf said Iran’s revolution had changed the character of the Middle East. “We remember that in 1960s during the reign of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt, when Syrian, Iraqi and Egyptian armies united against Israel, they could not resist more than three days and even lost the Sinai desert to the Zionists,” he said.
