Ahmadinejad congratulalates Hamas for victory, calls for trying Zionist criminals

Source: AFP, 19-01-2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated Hamas on its victory in its war with "Israel", the state news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
"Today is the beginning of victory, and perseverance will complete the links of victory," Ahmadinejad told Hamas' exiled chief Khaled Meshaal in a telephone call, the report said.
Islamic states, he added, should seek to "pressure the Zionist regime to fully retreat, open the crossings, try the Zionist criminals, cut ties with the fake Zionist regime and boycott its goods and its supporters."