Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued his first state visit to Lebanon Thursday in the southern region bordering Israel. Speaking before a crowd of thousands, Ahmadinejad said Israel would one day “disappear.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Let everyone know that the Zionists will cease to exist. You have been able to let the enemy taste defeat and introduced despair into the hearts of the devil and the hearts of the Zionists. And today there is no choice for the Zionists except to surrender to the reality or to return to their original homelands.’’