Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamanei declared Wednesday that Israel is on to road towards "weakness, destruction and defeat" and vowed that his country would continue to stand behind the Hamas movement whose goal is the violent dismemberment of the Jewish state. Khamanei, who is the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, said it was "definite [that] the world of Islam will see that day and [I] hope the existing generation of the Palestinian people will watch the day" when Israel is eradicated.