Which is a bummer because I was this close to buying the whole Hope and Change thing:

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged world Muslims on Wednesday to join the Palestinian "resistance" against Israel, but his call was dismissed by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. "The only way to save Palestine is resistance," Khamenei said in an address to a global summit organised by Tehran in aid of the war-battered Gaza Strip and the Palestinians. "Support and help to Palestinians is a mandatory duty of all Muslims. I now tell all Muslim brothers and sisters to join forces and break the immunity of the Zionist criminals."

He also helpfully explained that the Jewish state is a "cancerous tumor" and that the Holocaust is a "big lie." Maybe this is something Obama can talk to him about. In other Iranian news, Ali Larijani - the quintessential "conservative pragmatist" so beloved by US Iran experts - thinks that Jews are trying to eradicate Islam:

Iran's PressTV writes: ... "Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says that the creation of Israel was aimed at placing Islamic states under Zionist influence. In a speech delivered at the international conference in support of Palestinians in Tehran on Wednesday, Larijani said frequent tensions in the Middle East clearly show that the elders of Zion planned to preoccupy Islamic countries with daily struggles... "The Palestinian crisis is a serious one with almost no precedent. Imprisoning millions of people in Israeli jails and turning millions of others into refugees over the past 60 years is but a portion of Israel's atrocities in Palestine," Larijani added.

Mohammad Ali Jafari - another vaunted non-radical conservative - has taken to musing about how Iran has missiles that can hit Israel:

Iranian missiles can reach Israeli nuclear sites, Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic republic's Revolutionary Guards, said Wednesday. "All the nuclear facilities in different parts of the land under the occupation of the Zionist regime are in the reach of Iran's missile defenses," Jafari was quoted by the ISNA news agency as saying. Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a range of up to 1,250 miles, putting Israel within striking distance. Jafari was quoted as saying that Iran is now a mighty military power to be reckoned with.

At least diplomats and academics sympathetic to the mullahs aren't basically running US foreign policy.

References:
* Iran urges world Muslim 'resistance' against Israel
* Iran: Israel a 'Cancer,' Holocaust a 'Big Lie' [Fox News]
* Iran unmasks the Elders [Elder]
* Iran: We can hit Israeli nuclear sites [JPost]
* The "Iran Lobby" Moves Into The White House [MR]

Previously:
* US Spy Agencies: Actually, It Turns Out That Iran Is Developing Nukes (UPDATE: Obama On The NIE: "Bush Continues To Not Let Facts Get In The Way Of His Ideology")
* Iran And Hamas Rush To Support Al-Bashir Against ICC, Show Support For His Jihad
* Iran: Not Only Are We Not Going To Talk To Obama About Nukes. We're Not Going To Talk To Him About Iraq Either.