Israel cannot survive: Ahmadinejad

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called Israel a 'counterfeit and illegitimate regime that cannot survive', in a live broadcast on state television.

'The Zionist regime is counterfeit and illegitimate and cannot survive,' he said in a speech to a crowd in the town of Islamshahr in southwestern Tehran.

'The big powers have created this fraud regime and allowed it to commit all kind of crimes to guarantee their interests,' he added."