By DPA   
Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel  
Tehran on Monday said that even after 60 years, Israel still has neither legitimacy nor any role in the Middle East, ISNA news agency reported Monday.
"The West has tried to impose a fabricated regime on the Middle East but even after 60 years, the Zionist regime (Israel) has neither gained any legitimacy nor played any role in this region," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.
Calling United States policies in the Middle East a failure, Mottaki predicted the collapse of Israel.  
Mottaki was in Beirut last week to participate in the funeral procession for Imad Muganiyeh, a military leader of the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah who was killed in a bomb attack in Damascus last week.
Tehran, an avid supporter of Hezbollah, blamed Israel for Muganiyeh's assassination but said that such moves could not stop the struggle against Israeli "atrocities."
"The era of imposing policies on other states by military threats is over. The nations in the region will no longer surrender to any threats," Mottaki said.
Iran does not acknowledge Israel as a sovereign state and historic hostilities reached their peak following the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who not only called for Israel's elimination from the Middle East but also questioned the Holocaust.  
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