Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Friday Iran would work until "all of Palestine is liberated" from Israel's hands. "The Palestinian people are standing firm. The Iranian people and other peoples will not stop until all of Palestinian territory is liberated," Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast on state radio to mark Quds day. "They (world powers) should not think that the Iranian nation and other nations in the region will take their hands off the throat of the Zionists and their supporters." In his speech at Tehran University, the culmination of Iran's annual day in support of the Palestinians.

Ahmadinejad also affirmed that "Zionists" should move to empty lands in Europe or North America and out of the Middle East entirely. "Europeans can not tolerate the Zionists in their region and country, but they want to impose them on the people of the region... Give these vast lands of Canada and Alaska to them to create a country for themselves."