In a document published on conservative Farsi website Alef, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's strategist provided the legal and religious justification for the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people. The strategy specialist Alireza Forghani, outlined the reasons why, in the name of Allah, Iran needed to attack Israel by 2014. The doctrine was published on a website believed to have close ties with the Ayatollah. Forghani called the Jewish state a 'cancerous tumor' and reminded his readers that all of Iran's troubles were due to Israel.