Iran's supreme leader warns Qatari emir about Israel
The Iranian state media coverage of the meeting made no mention of the Iran nuclear deal, which was widely speculated to have topped the agenda of the emir's visit to Tehran.
Israel appeared to have been the main topic in a meeting between Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the visiting Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in Tehran on May 12.
"Wherever they set their feet on, the Zionists [Israel] cause corruption," Khamenei declared, according to a report published by his official website. "The Arab world is expected to openly enter the field of political action against [Israel's] obvious crimes."
In what appeared as a word of caution to Sheikh Tamim, the Iranian leader suggested that relations with Israel do not promise any "power and privilege" and that Israel "is in no position that one should be sacred by."
The Islamic Republic has relentlessly expressed its ferocious opposition to a chain of normalization pacts between Arab states and Israel, slamming the rapprochement as "treason."
