Tehran- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday continued his tirades against Israel by saying that "all crimes and criminals in history" were summarized in the Israeli regime.

"The Zionist (Israeli) regime's spirit is the summation of all ugliness in the world and the continuation of its existence is based on aggression and occupation," Mehr news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

"We see in this regime the summation of all crimes and criminals in history," he added.

Referring to the collapse of Israel, the president said, "very soon that historic justice day would hopefully come."

"The era of Zionism (Israel) is approaching its end and the idea of the Greater or even Lesser Israel has died and at the current stage Israel is just a political retard," Mehr quoted Ahmadinejad as further saying.

Ahmadinejad called on all Iranians to attend the so-called Qods (Jeruslame)-Day, an Iran-initiated annual rally held on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan (this year on September 26) and aimed at showing Iran's support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their occupied lands.

During a press conference on Thursday, Ahmadinejad said Iran would neither acknowledge an Israeli government nor a nation.

He said that he would have nothing against Israeli Jews but even called on them to leave the occupied territories and return to their "countries of origin."

Ahmadinejad has attracted international condemnation in the last three years with his anti-Israeli tirades and by doubting the historical dimensions of the Holocaust in the Second World War. He has however constantly rejected anti-Semitism charges.

Also last week Ahmadinejad reiterated his antagonistic approach towards the Holocaust by calling the Jewish massacre by the Nazi regime a lie, saying that the real Holocaust was happening to the Palestinians. (dpa)