The message from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad on the eve of Ramadan - "horrible Zionist current has been managing world affairs for 400 years," adding --"liberating Palestine would solve all world problems."

Pakistani religious leader, Pirzada Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai, said: "When the Jews are wiped out ... the sun of peace [will] begin to rise on the entire world."