In an interview Saturday, Iran's outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the best solution for Middle East peace was for Israel to "go find somewhere else" for its state and leave its territory for the creation of another Arab state. "Our support (for the Palestinian people) is unconditional. As for the Israelis, let them go find somewhere else," Ahmadinejad told interviewers in Algeria ahead of a visit scheduled for Monday to the country.

On Friday, Ahmadinejad decried the arms deals announced by the U.S. last week, in which Saudi Arabia would receive $20 billion worth of advanced weapons, supposedly to be used against Iran. "All U.S. efforts are for the creation of differences among our brothers in the region to impose its ideas and hegemony," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.