IRGC: Continued Settlement Construction Will Lead to «Israel’s» Demise

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As the dust settles on a UN resolution condemning illegal "Israeli" settlement building in occupied Palestinian territory, Iran came out with a statement saying that the "Israeli" entity will pay dearly for continuing with the construction.

A spokesman for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] said that, by going ahead with settlements, the apartheid "Israeli" regime is risking "complete destruction," as it will "definitely provoke a reaction," as quoted by Tasnim news agency.

The rhetoric from Iran comes a day after US Secretary of State John Kerry had criticized the entity's activities in occupied Palestine, while playing down the US' role in facilitating the passage of the UN Security Council's anti-settlement resolution.

Washington chose to abstain from voting at a Security Council meeting last Friday, when members voted to condemn the illegal construction. The Iranian spokesman hailed the move as a "sign that Washington has come to realize the course of events and continued settlement construction will result in the collapse of the Zionist regime of ‘Israel'."

The resolution was upheld with 14 votes in favor. While the US didn't vote for the resolution, it didn't veto it either, which is seen by some as a landmark change, given that Washington has blocked virtually every attempt to criticize the "Israeli" entity at the United Nations for decades.

The entity took control of Palestine in 1967, and had since faced mounting criticism of its occupation, which had included the construction of "Israeli" settlements on Palestinian land. Though the UN maintains that the settlements are illegal, construction had only been stepped up over the last year.

Some 430,000 "Israeli" settlers currently live in the occupied West Bank, with another 200,000 calling occupied East al-Quds [Jerusalem] home - a city that the Palestinians also view as their own capital.

In his recent comments, Kerry sharply criticized Tel Aviv, asserting that the "Israeli" entity's settlements in the Palestinian territory have "nothing to do with ‘Israel's' security," as the entity often claims.

Kerry argued that, without a two-state solution, "‘Israel' can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team